The aim of the study was to assess the effect of short-term musical training on speech perception in noise. In the present study speech perception in noise was measured pre- and post- short-term musical training. The musical training involved auditory perceptual training for raga identification of two Carnatic ragas. The training was given for eight sessions. A total of 18 normal hearing adults...

In this paper, we provide a new theoretical analysis of the amount of musical noise generated via Wiener filter based on higher-order statistics. Spectral subtraction and Wiener filter are the most commonly used noise reduction methods, and in our previous study a musical noise assessment theory limited to the spectral subtraction was proposed. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new theoret...

Abstract— For audio denoising, diagonal thresholding estimators of spectrogram coefficients produce a “musical noise” that degrades audio perception. We introduce a block thresholding which produces hardly any musical noise and improves the SNR compared to diagonal thresholdings or Ephraim and Malah estimators. Spectrogram coefficients are grouped into blocks to compute attenuation factors. Thi...

A well known technique for speech enhancement is spectral subtraction. This technique is attractive due to its simplicity and its low computational cost. However, spectral subtraction has the drawback of generating residual noise with a musical character, the so-called musical noise. In this paper, we propose a simple modi cation of the lter coe cient calculation in form of a recursion of the p...

In this paper, an enhancement method is proposed for a speech signal that is corrupted by background noise. The proposed method is based on the spectral subtraction technique. The conventional spectral subtraction method improves the quality of the signal by reducing noise but it introduces an annoying musical noise. To eliminate the musical noise, spectral subtraction method in modulation doma...

In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet coefficient threshold (WCT) depended on both time and frequency information for providing robustness to non-stationary and correlated noisy environments. A perceptual wavelet filter-bank (PWFB) is firstly used to decompose the noisy speech signal into critical bands according to critical bands of psycho-acoustic model of human auditory system. The estim...

We propose a structure-generalized blind spatial subtraction array (BSSA), and the theoretical analysis of the amounts of musical noise and speech distortion. The structure of BSSA should be selected according to the application, i.e., a channelwise BSSA is recommended for listening but a conventional BSSA is suitable for speech recognition. key words: speech enhancement, musical noise, higher-...