Linear Prediction Based Online Dereverberation and Noise Reduction Using Alternating Kalman Filters
S. Braun and E. A. P. Habets
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2018.
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Example 1: Walking front-back
- The signals were recorded using 2 omnidirectional microphones with 6 cm spacing.
- The stationary noise PSD is estimated in advance during speech absence.
Example 2: Walking left-right
- The signals were recorded using 2 omnidirectional microphones with 6 cm spacing.
- The stationary noise PSD is estimated in advance during speech absence.
Example 3: Babble noise
- The signals in example 3 were generated using measured RIRs from a 2-channel microphone array with 20 cm spacing in a room with 0.7 s reverberation time.
- The reverberated speakers (German and French) are located at different positions in the room.
- Non-stationary babble noise recorded in a cafeteria was added to the reverberant signals with input SNR = 10 dB.
- The noise covariance was estimated as a stationary average over periods of speech absence. Therefore, only the stationary part of the noise can be reduced, while non-stationary elements remain in the noise residual.
- You can choose between different settings for the noise reduction (NR) and reverberation reduction (RR), which can be controlled independently for specific requirements or to subjective taste.
- For these examples, the 2-channel output is played back, so you can localize the speakers on a stereo playback device.
