Postprocessing method for suppressing musical noise generated by spectral subtraction

نویسندگان

  • Zenton Goh
  • Kah-Chye Tan
  • B. T. G. Tan
چکیده

In this correspondence, we investigate whether musical noise, which often exists in speech enhanced using spectral subtraction, can be suppressed. Via exploiting some specific characteristics of human speech, we propose a method that can effectively suppress musical noise without noticeable effect on speech intelligibility. Performance assessments confirm that our method is effective.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing

دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998