SPATIO-TEMPORAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE BASED ON GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION

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15658088

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The present invention describes a speech enhancement method using microphone arrays and a new iterative technique for enhancing noisy speech signals under low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) environments. A first embodiment involves the processing of the observed noisy speech both in the spatial- and the temporal-domains to enhance the desired signal component speech and an iterative technique to compute the generalized eigenvectors of the multichannel data derived from the microphone array. The entire processing is done on the spatio-temporal correlation coefficient sequence of the observed data in order to avoid large matrix-vector multiplications. A further embodiment relates to a speech enhancement system that is composed of two stages. In the first stage, the noise component of the observed signal is whitened, and in the second stage a spatio-temporal power method is used to extract the most dominant speech component. In both the stages, the filters are adapted using the multichannel spatio-temporal correlation coefficients of the data and hence avoid large matrix vector multiplications.

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SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITYDALLAS TX 75275-0132

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DOUGLAS, Scott C University Park, US 4 13
GUPTA, Malay Schaumburg, US 11 51

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