Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

11 p.

Publication Date

2-2007

Publisher

Elsevier

Source Publication

Speech Communication

Source ISSN

0167-6393

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.12.002

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the application of the Bionic Wavelet Transform (BWT), an adaptive wavelet transform derived from a non-linear auditory model of the cochlea, to the task of speech signal enhancement. Results, measured objectively by Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) and Segmental SNR (SSNR) and subjectively by Mean Opinion Score (MOS), are given for additive white Gaussian noise as well as four different types of realistic noise environments. Enhancement is accomplished through the use of thresholding on the adapted BWT coefficients, and the results are compared to a variety of speech enhancement techniques, including Ephraim Malah filtering, iterative Wiener filtering, and spectral subtraction, as well as to wavelet denoising based on a perceptually scaled wavelet packet transform decomposition. Overall results indicate that SNR and SSNR improvements for the proposed approach are comparable to those of the Ephraim Malah filter, with BWT enhancement giving the best results of all methods for the noisiest (−10 db and −5 db input SNR) conditions. Subjective measurements using MOS surveys across a variety of 0 db SNR noise conditions indicate enhancement quality competitive with but still lower than results for Ephraim Malah filtering and iterative Wiener filtering, but higher than the perceptually scaled wavelet method.

Comments

Accepted version. Speech Communication, Vol. 49, No. 2 (February 2007): 123-133. DOI. © 2007 Elsevier. Used with permission.

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