Fundamentals, present and future perspectives of speech enhancement

N Das, S Chakraborty, J Chaki, N Padhy… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Speech enhancement has substantial interest in the utilization of speaker identification,
video-conference, speech transmission through communication channels, speech-based …

[PDF][PDF] A review of signal subspace speech enhancement and its application to noise robust speech recognition

K Hermus, P Wambacq, H Van Hamme - EURASIP journal on advances in …, 2006 - Springer
The objective of this paper is threefold:(1) to provide an extensive review of signal subspace
speech enhancement,(2) to derive an upper bound for the performance of these techniques …

[책][B] Speech enhancement: theory and practice

PC Loizou - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
The first book to provide comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all major speech
enhancement algorithms proposed in the last two decades, Speech Enhancement: Theory …

Subjective comparison and evaluation of speech enhancement algorithms

Y Hu, PC Loizou - Speech communication, 2007 - Elsevier
Making meaningful comparisons between the performance of the various speech
enhancement algorithms proposed over the years has been elusive due to lack of a …

Objective measures for predicting speech intelligibility in noisy conditions based on new band-importance functions

J Ma, Y Hu, PC Loizou - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The articulation index (AI), speech-transmission index (STI), and coherence-based
intelligibility metrics have been evaluated primarily in steady-state noisy conditions and …

On optimal frequency-domain multichannel linear filtering for noise reduction

M Souden, J Benesty, S Affes - IEEE Transactions on audio …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several contributions have been made so far to develop optimal multichannel linear filtering
approaches and show their ability to reduce the acoustic noise. However, there has not …

A comparative intelligibility study of single-microphone noise reduction algorithms

Y Hu, PC Loizou - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The evaluation of intelligibility of noise reduction algorithms is reported. IEEE sentences and
consonants were corrupted by four types of noise including babble, car, street and train at …

An integrated solution for online multichannel noise tracking and reduction

M Souden, J Chen, J Benesty… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise statistics estimation is a paramount issue in the design of reliable noise-reduction
algorithms. Although significant efforts have been devoted to this problem in the literature …

A parallel-data-free speech enhancement method using multi-objective learning cycle-consistent generative adversarial network

Y **ang, C Bao - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the mainstream strategy for speech
enhancement task because it can achieve the higher speech quality and intelligibility than …

SNR loss: A new objective measure for predicting the intelligibility of noise-suppressed speech

J Ma, PC Loizou - Speech communication, 2011 - Elsevier
Most of the existing intelligibility measures do not account for the distortions present in
processed speech, such as those introduced by speech-enhancement algorithms. In the …