Browse > Article

Speech Enhancement Algorithm Based on Teager Energy and Speech Absence Probability in Noisy Environments  

Park, Yun-Sik (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
An, Hong-Sub (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
Lee, Sang-Min (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.49, no.3, 2012 , pp. 81-88 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel speech enhancement algorithm for effective noise suppression in various noisy environments. In the proposed method, to result in improved decision performance for speech and noise segments, local speech absence probability (LSAP, local SAP) based on Teager energy of noisy speech is used as the feature parameter for voice activity detection (VAD) in each frequency subband instead of conventional LSAP. In addition, The presented method utilizes global SAP (GSAP) derived in each frame as the weighting parameter for the modification of the adopted TE operator to improve the performance of TE operator. Performances of the proposed algorithm are evaluated by objective test under various environments and better results compared with the conventional methods are obtained.
Keywords
Teager energy;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 1  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 Y. Ephraim and D. Malah, "Speech enhancement using a minimum mean-square error short-time spectral amplitude estimator," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., vol. ASSP-32, no. 6, pp. 1109-1121, Dec. 1984.
2 박윤식, 조규행, 장준혁, "복소 라플라시안 확률 밀도 함수에 기반한 음성 향상 기법," 전자공학회논문지, 제44권, SP편 제6호, 111-117쪽, 2007. 11월.
3 L. Karray, C. Mokbel and J. Monne, "Solutions for robust. speech/non-speech detection in wireless environment," presented at the IVTTA, Sep. 1988.
4 F. Jabloun, A. E. Cetin and E. Erzin, "Teager energy based feature parameters for speech recognition in car noise," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 6, pp. 259-261, 1999.   DOI
5 K. C. Wang and Y. H. Tsai, "Voice activity detection algorithm with low signal-to-noise ratios based on spectrum entropy," Second International Symposium on Universal Communication 2008, pp. 423-428, Dec. 2008.
6 J. Sohn, W. Sung, "A voice activity detector employing soft decision based noise spectrum adaptation," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 365-368, 1998.
7 N. S. Kim and J.-H. Chang, "Spectral enhancement based on global soft decision," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 108-110, May 2000.   DOI
8 J. -H. Chang and N. S. Kim, "Speech enhancement : new approaches to soft decision," IEICE Trans. Inf. and Syst., VolE84-D, No.9, pp 1231-1240, Sep. 2001.
9 조규행, 박윤식, 장준혁, "Smoothed global soft decision에 근거한 음성 향상 기법," 전자공학회논문지, 제44권, SP편 제6호, 118-123쪽, 2007년 11월.
10 박윤식, 이상민, "잡음환경에서 Teager Energy 기반의 전역 음성부재확률을 이용하는 음성검출," 전자공학회논문지, 제49권, SP편 제1호.
11 Yi Hu and P. C. Loizou, "Evaluation of objective quality mea-sures for speech enhancement," IEEE Trans. ASLP, vol. 16, pp. 229-238, Jan. 2008.