SIMULATION OF MODIFIED HYBRID NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHM TO ENHANCE THE SPEECH QUALITY

Authors

  • A. Waqas Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
  • T. Muhammad Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
  • H. Jamal Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

Abstract

Speech is the most essential method of correspondence of humankind. Cell telephony, portable hearing assistants and, hands free are specific provisions in this respect. The performance of these communication devices could be affected because of distortions which might augment them. There are two essential sorts of distortions that might be recognized, specifically: convolutive and additive noises. These mutilations contaminate the clean speech and make it unsatisfactory to human audiences' i.e. perceptual value and intelligibility of speech signal diminishes. The objective of speech upgrade systems is to enhance the quality and understandability of speech to make it more satisfactory to audiences. This paper recommends a modified hybrid approach for single channel devices to process the noisy signals considering only the effect of background noises. It is a mixture of pre-processing relative spectral amplitude (RASTA) filter, which is approximated by a straightforward 4th order band-pass filter, and conventional minimum mean square error short time spectral amplitude (MMSE-STSA85) estimator. To analyze the performance of the algorithm an objective parameter called Perceptual estimation of speech quality (PESQ) is measured. The results show that the modified algorithm performs well to remove the background noises. SIMULINK implementation is also performed and its profile report has been generated to observe the execution time.

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27-05-2013

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A. Waqas, T. Muhammad, and H. Jamal, “SIMULATION OF MODIFIED HYBRID NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHM TO ENHANCE THE SPEECH QUALITY”, The Nucleus, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 155–163, May 2013.

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