Title :
Enhancement of Non-Air Conduct Speech Auditory Masking: Enhancement of Non-Air Conduct Speech
Author :
Sheng Li ; Jian Qi Wang ; Ming Niu ; Xi Jing Jing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Fourth Mil. Med. Univ., Xian
Abstract :
Besides air conduct speech, the non-air conduct speech may provide some exciting possibility of wide applications. This paper explores a new non-air conduct speech detecting method using millimeter wave radar. However, the combined noise which is introduced in the detecting system corrupted the non-air conduct speech greatly. Therefore, this study proposed an efficient way to enhance the corrupted speech by taking into account properties of the human auditory system in the speech enhancement process, it offers the possibility to adaptive adjust the tradeoff between noise reduction, residual noise and speech distortion. The results from both simulation and evaluation suggest that this algorithm is able to reduce the background noise efficiently and the residual noise is less structured while the distortion of MMW radar speech remains acceptable.
Keywords :
hearing; signal denoising; speech enhancement; auditory masking; background noise; millimeter wave radar; noise reduction; nonair conduct speech; residual noise; speech detection; speech distortion; speech enhancement; Auditory system; Background noise; Humans; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Noise reduction; Radar detection; Speech coding; Speech enhancement; Speech processing;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1747-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1748-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2008.861