An End to End Method of Whisper Enhancement
Yan Qun Huang, Hailun Lian, Jian Zhou, Huabin Wang, Liang Tao · 2019
In this paper, we propose a method of enhancing whisper, using whisper without any pretreatment combined with Wavenet. Our method is end-to-end, that is, inputing noised whisper to get clean whisper. The input to our method is the original whisper without any processing, reducing the loss of features caused by other operations. We use speech denoising Wavenet to enhance whisper. Wavenet can not only enhance whisper well, but also tackle the issue of intelligibility. Specifically, use symmetric dilated convolution to obtain noisy speech context, help the model to enhance the speech for better denoising effect. Experimental results show that the enchanced whisper gains better performance both in the aspect of speech quality and intelligibility.