Title :
A non-uniformly distributed three-microphone array for speech enhancement in directional and diffuse noise field
Author :
Chung-Chien Hsu ; Kah-Meng Cheong ; Tai-Shih Chi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper proposes a non-uniformly distributed threemicrophone array speech enhancement system to suppress directional interferences and diffuse noise simultaneously. Each pair of microphones is designed to tackle one kind of noise. Unlike other hybrid systems, which combine different noise suppression techniques derived in different domains, the proposed system integrates two noise suppression techniques derived in the unified power spectral density domain. In terms of objective LLR and PESQ measures, the proposed hybrid system is demonstrated more effective in eliminating directional and diffuse noise under various SNR conditions than each individual suppression technique.
Keywords :
microphone arrays; signal denoising; speech enhancement; LLR measures; PESQ measures; SNR conditions; diffuse noise elimination; directional interferences suppression; directional noise elimination; hybrid system; noise suppression techniques; nonuniformly distributed three-microphone array speech enhancement system; unified power spectral density domain; Arrays; Coherence; Microphones; Noise; Speech; Speech enhancement; coherence; interaural time difference; microphone array; speech enhancement;
Conference_Titel :
Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 2014 9th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
DOI :
10.1109/ISCSLP.2014.6936646