METHOD FOR PROCESSING NOISY SPEECH SIGNAL, APPARATUS FOR SAME AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• Main Authors: JUNG SUNG IL, HA DONG GYUNG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.02.2011
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION

A noise estimation method for a noisy speech signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of approximating a transformation spectrum by transforming an input noisy speech signal to a frequency domain, calculating a smoothed magnitude spectrum having a decreased difference in a magnitude of the transformation spectrum between neighboring frames, calculating a search spectrum to represent an estimated noise component of the smoothed magnitude spectrum, and estimating a noise spectrum by using a recursive average method using an adaptive forgetting factor defined by using the search spectrum. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the amount of calculation for noise estimation is small, and large-capacity memory is not required. Accordingly, the present invention can be easily implemented in hardware or software. Further, the accuracy of noise estimation can be increase because an adaptive procedure can be performed on each frequency sub-band.