Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 87-94.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.02.012

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Speech enhancement based on multi-task sparse representation for dual small microphone arrays

Li-chun YANG1,2,Min-chao YE1,Yun-tao QIAN1   

  1. 1 College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
    2 Intelligent Control Research Institute, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315101, China
  • Online:2014-02-25 Published:2017-07-25
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program);The National Key Technology R&D Program of China

Abstract:

Speech enhancement algorithms for dual small microphone arrays usually rely on the voice activity detec-tion(VAD), and they may fail in some cases when target speech signal is included in the first frame. A multi-task sparse representation based speech enhancement algorithm was proposed. First, dictionaries for signal and noise were respec-tively formed via dictionary learning. Then the noise in signals obtain from two microphones was reduced by e2/ 1e regu-larized sparse representation on the over-complete dictionary, while the target speech signals were mostly preserved, hence the speech signals were enhanced. Experimental results from synthetic and real-world data show that the proposed speech enhancement algorithm without VAD works well in all cases no matter speech signal is included in the first frame or not.

Key words: small microphone arrays, speech enhancement, dictionary learning, multi-task sparse representation

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