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An Adaptive Speech Enhancement System Using Lateral Inhibition and Time-Delay Neural Network

상호억제와 시간지연 신경회로망을 사용한 적응적인 음성강조시스템

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Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive speech enhancement system based on an auditory system to enhance speech that is degraded by various background noises. As such, the proposed system detects voiced and unvoiced sections, adaptively adjusts the coefficients for both the lateral inhibition and the amplitude component according to the detected sections for each input fame, then reduces the noise signal using a time-delay neural network. Based on measuring the signal-to-noise ratio, experiments confirm that the proposed system is effective for speech degraded by various noises.

본 논문에서는 다양한 배경잡음에 의해 열화된 음성을 강조하기 위하여 청각시스템을 기초로 한 적응적인 음성강조시스템을 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 먼저 유성음과 무성음의 구간을 검출한 후, 각 입력 프레임에서 검출된 결과에 따라서 상호억제 계수와 진폭성분조정계수를 적응적으로 조정한다. 마지막으로 시간지연신경회로망을 사용하여 잡음신호를 제거한다. 실험결과 본 시스템은 신호대잡음비의 평가방법을 통하여 다양한 잡음에 의해서 열화된 음성신호를 백색잡음 및 유색잡음에 대해서 효과적인 것을 보여준다.

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