Noise suppression system
US4811404A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 1, 1987 |
| Grant date | Mar 7, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 1, 2007 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2025/937
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An improved noise suppression system (800) is disclosed which performs speech quality enhancement upon the speech-plus-noise signal available at the input (205) to generate a clean speech signal at the output (265) by spectral gain modification. The improvements of the present invention include the addition of a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold mechanism (830) to reduce background noise flutter by offsetting the gain rise of the gain tables until a certain SNR threshold is reached, the use of a voice metric calculator (810) to produce more accurate background noise estimates via performing the update decision based on the overall voice-like characteristics in the channels and the time interval since the last update, and the use of a channel SNR modifier (820) to provide immunity to narrowband noise bursts through modification of the SNR estimates based on the voice metric calculation and the channel energies.
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