A Flexible Speech Distortion Weighted Multi-Channel Wiener Filter for Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids
Publication: Research - peer-review › Conference article in Journal
In this paper, a multi-channel noise reduction algorithm is presented based on a Speech Distortion Weighted Multi-channel Wiener Filter (SDW-MWF) approach that incorporates a flexible weighting factor. A typical SDW-MWF uses a fixed weighting factor to trade-off between noise reduction and speech distortion without taking speech presence or speech absence into account. Consequently, the improvement in noise reduction comes at the cost of a higher speech distortion since the speech dominant segments and the noise dominant segments are weighted equally. Based on a two-state speech model with a noise-only and a speech+noise state, a solution is introduced that allows for a more flexible trade-off between noise reduction and speech distortion. Experimental results with hearing aid scenarios demonstrate that the proposed SDW-MWF incorporating the flexible weighting factor improves the signal-to-noise-ratio with lower speech distortion compared to a typical SDW-MWF and the SDW-MWF incorporating the conditional speech presence probability (SPP).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Pages | 2528 - 2531 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISSN | 1520-6149 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing |
|---|---|
| Country | Czech Republic |
| City | Prag |
| Period | 22-05-11 → 27-05-11 |
Loading map data...
Download statistics
No data available
ID: 63095840