Method for suppressing noise in a digital speech signal
US6477489B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 5, 2000 |
| Grant date | Nov 5, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 5, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L21/0264
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A spectral subtraction is effected including: a first subtraction step in which overestimates of the spectral component of the noise are taken into account, to obtain spectral components of a first noise-suppressed signal; the computation of a masking curve by applying an auditory perception model on the basis of the spectral components of the first noise-suppressed signal; and a second subtraction step in which a respective quantity depending on parameters including a difference between the overestimate of the corresponding spectral component of the noise and the computed masking curve is subtracted from each spectral component of the speech signal in the frame. The result of the spectral subtraction is transformed into the time domain to construct a noise-suppressed speech signal.
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