• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.392-400
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an effective speech reinforcement technique base on ITU-T G.729A CS-ACELP codec under the near-end background noise environments. In general, since the intelligibility of the far-end speech for the near-end listener is significantly reduced under near-end noise environments, we require a far-end speech reinforcement approach to avoid this phenomena. In contrast to the conventional speech reinforcement algorithm, we reinforce the excitation signal of the codec's parameters received from the far-end speech signal based on the G.729A speech codec under various background noise environments. Specifically, we first estimate the excitation signal of ambient noise at the near-end through the encoder of the G.729A speech codec, reinforcing the excitation signal of the far-end speech transmitted from the far-end. we specially propose a novel approach to directly reinforce the excitation signal of far-end speech signal based on the decoder of the G.729A. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the CCR (Comparison Category Rating) test of the method for subjective determination of transmission quality in ITU-T P.800 under various noise environments and shows better performances compared with conventional SNR Recovery methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.379-385
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an effective speech reinforcement technique under the near-end and the far-end noise environments. In general, since the intelligibility of the far-end speech for the near-end listener is significantly reduced under near-end noise environments, we require a far-end speech reinforcement approach to avoid this phenomena. Specifically, based on the estimated background noise spectrum of the near-end, we reinforce the far-end speech spectrum by incorporating the more general cases under the near-end with background noise. Also, we propose the novel approach to reinforce the actual speech signal except for the noise signal in the far-end noisy speech signal. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the CCR (Comparison Category Rating) test of the method for subjective determination of transmission quality in ITU-T P.800 under various noise environments and shows better performances compared with the conventional method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.760-766
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 차량내 핸즈프리 전화통신을 위한 음향 반향 및 배경 잡음 제거기를 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 새로운 잔여 반향 제거 기법과 실시간 구현에 적합한 동시통화 검출기를 포함한다. 잔여 반향 제거에서는 근단화자가 없는 구간에 대하여 선형 예측기를 이용하여 잔여 반향 신호의 인접 샘플간의 상관도를 제거하여 잡음 제거기의 입력으로 사용한다. 잔여 반향 신호의 음성특성을 제거함으로써 잡음 제거기를 이용하여 배경 잡음과 더불어 잔여 반향의 전력을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 시스템에서는 상용 저전송률 음성부호화기와의 결합을 고려하여 IS-127(EVRC)에 포함되어 있는 잡음 제거기를 사용하였다. 90 km/h로 정속 주행하는 차내의 핸즈프리 환경에서 제안된 시스템은 30 dB이상의 간섭신호 제거 성능을 보였다. 제안된 시스템은 16비트 고정 소수점 연산을 하는 저가의 DSP를 이용하여 실시간 구현되었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5C
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• pp.478-486
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• 2007

Double-talk detection errors can result in either large residual echo or distorting the near-end talker's input speech. Thus accurate double-talk detection is an important problem in the acoustic echo canceller to improve the speech quality. In the double-talk detection algorithm using a cross-correlation coefficient, double-talk detection errors can occur in the initial convergence period of an adaptive filter or in noisy environment since the cross-correlation coefficient becomes large in such situations. In this paper, we propose a new double-talk detection algorithm based on the cross-correlation method using a normalized error signal power to reduce the double-talk detection errors. The experimental results have shown the performance improvement of an acoustic echo canceller as well as the noise-robustness of the proposed double-talk detector.