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Classical Tamil Speech Enhancement with Modified Threshold Function using Wavelets

  • Indra., J (Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Kongu Engineering College) ;
  • Kasthuri., N (Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Kongu Engineering College) ;
  • Navaneetha Krishnan., S (Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Kongu Engineering College)
  • Received : 2015.04.22
  • Accepted : 2016.06.28
  • Published : 2016.11.01
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Abstract

Speech enhancement is a challenging problem due to the diversity of noise sources and their effects in different applications. The goal of speech enhancement is to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech by reducing noise. Many research works in speech enhancement have been accomplished in English and other European Languages. There has been limited or no such works or efforts in the past in the context of Tamil speech enhancement in the literature. The aim of the proposed method is to reduce the background noise present in the Tamil speech signal by using wavelets. New modified thresholding function is introduced. The proposed method is evaluated on several speakers and under various noise conditions including White Gaussian noise, Babble noise and Car noise. The Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Mean Square Error (MSE) and Mean Opinion Score (MOS) results show that the proposed thresholding function improves the speech enhancement compared to the conventional hard and soft thresholding methods.

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