Speech Enhancement Using Multi-channel Post-Filtering with Modified Signal Presence Probability in Reverberant Environment

• Published in: Chinese Journal of Electronics 2016-05, Vol.25 (3), p.512-519
• Main Authors: Wang, Xiaofei, Guo, Yanmeng, Fu, Qiang, Yan, Yonghong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: direct‐to reverberate ratio; filtering theory; modified signal presence probability; multichannel post‐filtering approach; Multi‐channel post‐filtering; nonstationary noisy; probability; reverberant environment; Reverberation robust; Signal detection; signal detection scheme; spectral enhancement technique; Speech enhancement; SPP; time‐frequency analysis; time‐frequency domain; 多通道滤波; 改性; 概率; 混响; 环境测试; 语音增强; 通道信号; 非平稳噪声
• ISSN: 1022-4653; 2075-5597
• DOI: 10.1049/cje.2016.05.017

In this paper, a multi-channel post-filtering approach in reverberant environment based on detection and estimation scheme is presented. A modified Signal presence probability（SPP）, which is in consideration of reverberation, is proposed with a novel estimator Direct-toreverberate ratio（DRR） to adapt to distant-talking scene.SPP is known a key estimator to instruct the updating of transient noise or residual directional interference and form gain function in the time-frequency domain, consequently a new desired signal detection scheme is proposed to improve its accuracy. Appropriate spectral enhancement technique is applied to the noisy speech signal taking advantage of the modified SPP estimator. The proposed multi-channel post-filtering is tested in different nonstationary noisy and reverberant environments. Experimental results show that it achieves considerable improvement on signal preservation of the desired speech with more noise reduction over the comparative algorithms.