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Critical Banded Wavelet Packet-Based Spectral Subtractions for Speech Enhancement  

Chang, Sung-Wook (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Yang, Sung-Il (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.23, no.4E, 2004 , pp. 125-133 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a critical banded wavelet packet-based spectral subtraction for speech enhancement. Critical banded wavelet packet, which reflects the human auditory system, may lead to minimization of intelligibility loss and quality improvement of the enhanced speech in the spectral domain, when combined with an appropriate spectral subtraction gain function. The proposed method shows better performance than the conventional one in comparative assessments. We also show that, for effective evaluation of enhanced speech, it is essential to consider the characteristics of speech quality measures.
Keywords
Speech Enhancement; Critical Banded Wavelet Packet; Spectral Subtraction; Speech Quality Measure;
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