Improved Spectral Subtraction Speech Enhancement Algorithm
Yu Hong Liu, Dong Mei Zhou, Zhan Jun Jiang · Advanced materials research · 2013
The paper addresses the problems of speech distortion and residual musical noise introduced by conventional spectral subtraction (SS) method for speech enhancement. In this paper, we propose a modified SS algorithm for speech enhancement based on the masking properties of human auditory system. The algorithm computes the parameters α and β dynamically according to the masking thresholds of the critical frequency segments for each speech frame. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to the conventional SS method, not only in the improvement of output SNR, but in the reduction of the speech distortion and residual musical noise.