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Efficient Speech Enhancement based on left-right HMM with State Sequence Decision Using LRT  

이기용 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Abstract
We propose a new speech enhancement algorithm based on left-right Hidden Markov Model (HMM) with state decision using Log-likelihood Ratio Test (LRT). Since the conventional HMM-based speech enhancement methods try to improve speech quality for all states, they introduce huge computational loads inappropriate to real-time implementation. In the left-right HMM, only the current and the next state are considered for a possible state transition so to reduce the computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a method to decide the current state by using the LRT on the previous state. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the speed up to 60% with 0.2∼0.4 dB degradation of speech quality compared to the conventional method.
Keywords
Speech enhancement; Kalman filter; HMM; Likelihood ratio test; Expectation maximization;
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