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The Acoustical Society of Korea (한국음향학회)
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Adaptive Wavelet Based Speech Enhancement with Robust VAD in Non-stationary Noise Environment

  • Sungwook Chang (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Sungil Jung (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Younghun Kwon (Department of Physics, Hanyang University) ;
  • Yang, Sung-il (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • Published : 2003.12.01
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Abstract

We present an adaptive wavelet packet based speech enhancement method with robust voice activity detection (VAD) in non-stationary noise environment. The proposed method can be divided into two main procedures. The first procedure is a VAD with adaptive wavelet packet transform. And the other is a speech enhancement procedure based on the proposed VAD method. The proposed VAD method shows remarkable performance even in low SNRs and non-stationary noise environment. And subjective evaluation shows that the performance of the proposed speech enhancement method with wavelet bases is better than that with Fourier basis.

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