• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.118-123
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an improved global soft decision for speech enhancement in noise environments. From an examination of statistical model-based speech enhancement, it is shown that the global soft decision has a fundamental drawback at the offset region of speech signals. To overcome the drawback, we apply a new speech enhancement method based on a smoothed Global likelihood ratio to the global soft decision. Performances of the proposed method are evaluated by subjective tests under various environments and yield better results compared with the reported speech enhancement method.