Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system

Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system

The use of simultaneous masking in speech enhancement has shown promise for a range of noise types. In this paper, a new speech enhancement algorithm based on a short-term temporal masking threshold to noise ratio (MNR) is presented. A novel functional model for forward masking based on three parame...

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Main Authors: Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Ambikairajah, Eliathamby, Epps, Julien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) 2010
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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spelling iium-23302011-11-16T03:30:19Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2330/ Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system Gunawan, Teddy Surya Ambikairajah, Eliathamby Epps, Julien TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The use of simultaneous masking in speech enhancement has shown promise for a range of noise types. In this paper, a new speech enhancement algorithm based on a short-term temporal masking threshold to noise ratio (MNR) is presented. A novel functional model for forward masking based on three parameters is incorporated into a speech enhancement framework based on speech boosting. The performance of the speech enhancement algorithm using the proposed forward masking model was compared with seven other speech enhancement methods over 12 different noise types and four SNRs. Objective evaluation using PESQ revealed that using the proposed forward masking model, the speech enhancement algorithm outperforms the other algorithms by 6–20% depending on the SNR. Moreover, subjective evaluation using 16 listeners confirmed the objective test results. European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) 2010-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2330/1/SpeechCommunicationDec09.pdf Gunawan, Teddy Surya and Ambikairajah, Eliathamby and Epps, Julien (2010) Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system. Speech Communication, 52 (5). pp. 381-393. ISSN 0167-6393 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167639309001812 doi:10.1016/j.specom.2009.12.006
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Gunawan, Teddy Surya
Ambikairajah, Eliathamby
Epps, Julien
Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
description The use of simultaneous masking in speech enhancement has shown promise for a range of noise types. In this paper, a new speech enhancement algorithm based on a short-term temporal masking threshold to noise ratio (MNR) is presented. A novel functional model for forward masking based on three parameters is incorporated into a speech enhancement framework based on speech boosting. The performance of the speech enhancement algorithm using the proposed forward masking model was compared with seven other speech enhancement methods over 12 different noise types and four SNRs. Objective evaluation using PESQ revealed that using the proposed forward masking model, the speech enhancement algorithm outperforms the other algorithms by 6–20% depending on the SNR. Moreover, subjective evaluation using 16 listeners confirmed the objective test results.
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author Gunawan, Teddy Surya
Ambikairajah, Eliathamby
Epps, Julien
author_facet Gunawan, Teddy Surya
Ambikairajah, Eliathamby
Epps, Julien
author_sort Gunawan, Teddy Surya
title Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
title_short Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
title_full Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
title_fullStr Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
title_full_unstemmed Perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
title_sort perceptual speech enhancement exploiting temporal masking properties of human auditory system
publisher European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/2330/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2330/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2330/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2330/1/SpeechCommunicationDec09.pdf
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