EP0912974A1 - Verfahren zur verringerung von störungen eines sprachsignals - Google Patents
Verfahren zur verringerung von störungen eines sprachsignalsInfo
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- G—PHYSICS
- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- G10L21/00—Processing of the speech or voice signal to produce another audible or non-audible signal, e.g. visual or tactile, in order to modify its quality or its intelligibility
- G10L21/02—Speech enhancement, e.g. noise reduction or echo cancellation
- G10L21/0208—Noise filtering
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- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- G10L21/00—Processing of the speech or voice signal to produce another audible or non-audible signal, e.g. visual or tactile, in order to modify its quality or its intelligibility
- G10L21/02—Speech enhancement, e.g. noise reduction or echo cancellation
- G10L21/0208—Noise filtering
- G10L21/0264—Noise filtering characterised by the type of parameter measurement, e.g. correlation techniques, zero crossing techniques or predictive techniques
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- the invention relates to a method for reducing interference in a speech signal.
- Such a method can advantageously be used for interference-free speech signals for voice communication, in particular hands-free systems, e.g. found in motor vehicles, speech recognition systems and the like.
- a commonly used method for reducing the noise component in speech signals with interference is the so-called spectral subtraction. This procedure has the advantage of simple, low-effort implementation and a significant reduction in noise.
- Measures to suppress "musical tones" in the spectral subtraction are the overestimation of the interference power, ie the overcompensation of the interference with the disadvantage of increased speech distortion or the admission of a relatively high noise base with the disadvantage of only a slight noise reduction (eg “enhancement of Speech Corrupted by Acoustic Noise "by Berouti, M.; Schwartz, R.; Makhoul, J.; in Proceedings on ICASSP, pp. 208-211, 1979).
- Methods for linear or non-linear smoothing and thus for suppressing the "musical tones" are known for. B. in "Suppression of Acoustic Noise in Speech Using
- the object of the present invention is to provide an improved method for reducing interference in a speech signal.
- the invention is essentially based on the fact that signal components that only become audible through the noise reduction are recognized as disturbances and subsequently reduced or eliminated by selective damping.
- Exceeding a masking threshold is used as the audibility criterion in a manner known per se.
- the masking curves which are also referred to as masking curves, listening thresholds, masking threshold and the like in the specialist literature, can be regarded as a frequency-dependent level threshold for the perceptibility of a narrowband sound.
- Such masking curves are used in addition to interference-free applications, e.g. also used for data reduction when encoding audio signals.
- a detailed procedure for determining a masking curve is in addition to the publications already mentioned, e.g. from "Transform Coding of Audio Signals Using Perceptual Noise Criteria" by J. Johnston in IEEE Journal on Select Areas Commun. , Vol. 6, pp. 314-323, Feb. 1988.
- the essential steps of a typical method for determining a masking curve from the short-term spectrum of a disturbed speech signal are in particular
- the spectral components of the signal can be compared to the masking curve V (i) in audible (P (i)> V (i)) and masked (P (i) ⁇ V (i)) shares can be distinguished.
- FIG. l is a block diagram of a standard method for spectral subtraction
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a method according to the invention
- FIG. 3 shows a speech signal in various stages of the signal processing method according to the invention.
- the methods for spectral subtraction are based on processing the short-term magnitude spectrum of the disturbed input signal.
- the interference power spectrum is estimated and then subtracted in phase from the disturbed input signal. This subtraction is usually carried out as filtering.
- the filtering results in a weighting of the disturbed spectral components with a real factor, depending on the estimated signal-to-noise ratio of the respective spectral band.
- the noise reduction therefore results from the fact that disturbed spectral regions of the usage signal are damped in the ratio of their interference component.
- FIG. 1 shows a typical implementation of the spectral subtraction algorithm.
- the disturbed speech signal is broken down, for example by a discrete Fourier transformation (DFT), into a series of short-term spectra Y (i).
- DFT discrete Fourier transformation
- the unit KM forms a short mean time value, which represents an estimate for the average power Y (i) with i as the discrete frequency index of the disturbed input signal.
- an average interference power spectrum N 2 (i) is estimated in the speech signal-free sections. Every spectral line
- Y (i) of the input signal is then multiplied by a real filter coefficient H (i), which results from the Short time average Y (i) and the interference power average N 2 (i) is calculated in the unit FK.
- H (i) results from the Short time average Y (i) and the interference power average N 2 (i) is calculated in the unit FK.
- the process step of noise reduction is shown as the multiplication level GR.
- An inverse discrete Fourier transformation (IDFT) results in the noise-reduced speech signal at the output of the synthesis stage.
- the filter coefficients H (i) can be calculated according to different weighting rules known per se.
- the estimation of the coefficients according to is typical
- H (i) max ⁇ (1- JN 2 (i) / Y 2 (i) '), f 1 ⁇
- fl as the predeterminable basic value (also spectral floor), which represents a lower bound for the filter coefficients and is usually 0.1 ⁇ fl ⁇ 0.25. It determines a residual noise component remaining in the output signal of the spectral subtraction, which limits the lowering of the monitoring threshold and thus partially obscures narrowband components in the noise-reduced output signal of the spectral subtraction. Compliance with a basic value fl improves the subjective listening impression.
- a basic value of approx. 0.5 would have to be selected in order to cover up all residual disturbances of the type of "musical tones", as a result of which the maximum achievable noise reduction would be limited to approx. 6 dB.
- a characteristic feature of musical tones used in the method according to the invention is that they only appear as a disturbance to the human ear in the output signal of the noise reduction method to step.
- the perceptibility can be determined quantitatively by means of the second compression curve for this output signal.
- the musical tones can be heard as new audible signals by comparing the perceptible signal components in the output signal and the input signal Shares are differentiated and selectively damped in a subsequent processing step.
- a first masking curve VI (i) is determined in a unit VE from the input signals Y (i) of the noise reduction GR.
- a second masking curve V2 (i) is determined in VA from the output signals Y '(i) of the noise reduction.
- the first masking curve VI (i) can also be determined from the mean interference power spectrum at the input of the noise reduction in speech pauses.
- the computational effort can be further reduced by the fact that the masking curve has to be updated much less often, since the mean spectrum of interference power is usually only slowly changing over time.
- the qualitatively better synthesized speech signal is, however, obtained by determining the masking curves from the current signals Y (i), Y '(i).
- An advantageous development of the invention sees a further improvement by detection of stationary signal components which are excluded from the selective damping, even if they fulfill the criterion of being perceptible only in the output signal Y * (i).
- a stationarity detector STAT is shown for this purpose.
- audible tonal components in the output signal of the noise reduction system are first determined with the aid of the second masking curve V 2 (i). If this is not a stationary component, it is examined whether the spectral component was audible before the filtering (noise reduction). This is done using the first masking curve V ⁇ (i). If the frequency component in the input signal Y (i) is found to be hidden, the spectral component in the output signal is assumed to be a musical tone and is attenuated in a post-processing stage NV. In the other case, ie if the input signal is not covered, a decision is made in terms of speech and no additional attenuation is carried out.
- the additional damping in post-processing can be done in different ways. For example, for one as
- Disturbance detected newly audible spectral component the level value to be set to the value of the second masking curve.
- the detected level value of the interfering spectral component is preferably set to a corrected value which results from the filtering of the spectrally corresponding input signal component with the basic value fl as the filter coefficient.
- FIG. 3 are different stages of signal processing for a disturbed speech signal according to the invention.
- FIG. 3A shows a power spectrum P (i) of a disturbed signal at the input of the noise reduction as well as a first masking curve VI (i) with the signal components s exceeding the masking curve.
- P * (i) Y 1 (i) with a second masking curve V2 (i) determined therefrom, in which, in addition to the also shown in FIG. 3A, the signal components exceeding the masking curve VI (i) s more signal components than the second masking threshold occur, which appear as non-masked and thus newly audible signal components in the manner of the musical tones.
- FIG. 3C The power spectrum P M (i) resulting from the selective damping is shown in FIG. 3C outlined. Only the signal components s assessed as speech signals exceed the masking curve, these signals now being a much larger amount above masking curve V2 (i) than the corresponding components in the input signal above masking curve VI (i) (FIG. 3A) and are therefore more clearly audible. The musical tones m from FIG. 3B are pressed below the masking curve V2 (i) and are therefore no longer perceptible as individual tones.
- the invention is not limited to spectral subtraction for noise reduction.
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