Speech Enhancement - Audio Samples

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Single Microphone

1.      S. Gannot, D. Burshtein and E. Weinstein, "Iterative and Sequential Kalman Filter-Based Speech Enhancement Algorithms,"
IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Proc., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 373-385, Jul. 1998. [KEM]

2.      D. Burshtein and S. Gannot, "Speech Enhancement Using a Mixture-Maximum Model,"
IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1614-1626, Aug. 2001. [MixMaX]

3.       Y. Ephraim, D. Malah and B. H. Juang, "On the Application of Hidden Markov Models for Enhancing Noisy Speech,"
IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech and Sig. Proc., vol. 37, pp. 1846-1856, 1989. [HMM]

4.      Y. Ephraim, "A Bayesian Estimation Approach for Speech Enhancement Using Hidden Markov Models,"
IEEE Trans. on Sig. Proc., vol. 40, pp. 725-735, 1992. [HMM]

Remark:

The implementation of the HMM algorithm was made for comparison
by the authors of the KEM and MixMax algorithms and on their own responsibility.

Databases

• TIMIT
• Amsterdam Free University
• NOISEX-92
  
  

Microphone Array

1.      S. Gannot, D. Burshtein and E. Weinstein, "Signal Enhancement Using Beamforming and Non-Stationarity with application to Speech,"
IEEE Trans. on Sig. Proc., vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1614-1626, Aug. 2001. [TF-GSC]

2.       L. J. Griffiths and C. W. Jim,  "An Alternative Approach to Linearly Constrained Adaptive Beamforming,"
IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 27-35, Jan. 1982. [D-GSC]

 

 

 

Microphone Array with Postfiltering

 

1. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, "Speech Enhancement for Nonstationary noise environments,"
   Signal Processing, vol. 81, pp. 2403-2418, Aug. 2001. [OM-LSA]
    
2. Sharon Gannot and Israel Cohen, "Speech Enhancement Based on the General Transfer Function GSC and Postfiltering".
   IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 561-571, Nov. 2004. [MULTI]
    
3. I. Cohen, S. Gannot and B. Berdugo,  "An Integrated Real-Time Beamforming and Postfiltering System for Non-Stationary Noise Environments,"
   EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, special issue on signal processing for acoustic communication systems, Vol. 2003, No. 11, pp. 1064-1073, Oct. 2003. [MULTI] 
   
   
   

Joint Noise Reduction and Acoustic Echo Cancellation

1. Gal Reuven, Sharon Gannot and Israel Cohen, "Joint Noise Reduction and Acoustic Echo Cancellation using the Transfer-Function Generalized Sidelobe Canceller". Speech Communication, special issue on Speech Enhancement, Volume 49, Issues 7-8, July-August 2007, Pages 623-635. [ETF-GSC]
   
   
   

 

Dual Source

 

1. Gal Reuven, Sharon Gannot and Israel Cohen, "Dual Source Transfer-Function Generalized Sidelobe Canceller", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing,
   may, 2008. [DTF-GSC ]

 

Multiple Sources

 

1. S. Markovich, S. Gannot and I. Cohen , "Multichannel Eigenspace Beamforming in a Reverberant Noisy Environment with Multiple Interfering Speech Signals", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing,
   Sep., 2008.

 

 

CTF-GSC

 

1. Ronen Talmon, Israel Cohen and Sharon Gannot, "Convolutive Transfer Function Generalized Sidelobe Canceler", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Accepted for publication, Mar. 2009.
   
   

 

 

Transient Noise Reduction Using Nonlocal Diffusion Filters (Submitted to IEEE TSAL)

Ronen Talmon, Israel Cohen and Sharon Gannot

 

Sharon Gannot