Poorjam, Amir Hossein, Little, Max A, Jensen, Jesper Rindom and Christensen, Mads Græsbøll (2018). A Supervised Approach to Global Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation for Whispered and Pathological Voices. IN: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) . CAN: IEEE.
Abstract
The presence of background noise in signals adversely affects the performance of many speech-based algorithms. Accurate estimation of signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), as a measure of noise level in a signal, can help in compensating for noise effects. Most existing SNR estimation methods have been developed for normal speech and might not provide accurate estimation for special speech types such as whispered or disordered voices, particularly, when they are corrupted by non-stationary noises. In this paper, we first investigate the impact of stationary and non-stationary noise on the behavior of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) extracted from normal, whispered and pathological voices. We demonstrate that, regardless of the speech type, the mean and the covariance of MFCCs are predictably modified by additive noise and the amount of change is related to the noise level. Then, we propose a new supervised method for SNR estimation which is based on a regression model trained on MFCCs of the noisy signals. Experimental results show that the proposed approach provides accurate estimation and consistent performance for various speech types under different noise conditions.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462459 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI) |
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Event Title: | 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) |
Event Type: | Other |
Event Dates: | 2018-04-15 - 2018-04-20 |
ISBN: | 978-1-5386-4659-5, 978-1-5386-4658-8 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 09:23 |
Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2018 08:23 |
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PURE Output Type: | Conference contribution |
Published Date: | 2018-09-13 |
Accepted Date: | 2018-01-29 |
Authors: |
Poorjam, Amir Hossein
Little, Max A ( 0000-0002-1507-3822) Jensen, Jesper Rindom Christensen, Mads Græsbøll |