Robust Speech Dereverberation Using Multichannel Blind Deconvolution With Spectral Subtraction

Authors:
K. Furuya;A. Kataoka
Affiliations:
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Tokyo;-
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

A robust dereverberation method is presented for speech enhancement in a situation requiring adaptation where a speaker shifts his/her head under reverberant conditions causing the impulse responses to change frequently. We combine correlation-based blind deconvolution with modified spectral subtraction to improve the quality of inverse-filtered speech degraded by the estimation error of inverse filters obtained in practice. Our method computes inverse filters by using the correlation matrix between input signals that can be observed without measuring room impulse responses. Inverse filtering reduces early reflection, which has most of the power of the reverberation, and then, spectral subtraction suppresses the tail of the inverse-filtered reverberation. The performance of our method in adaptation is demonstrated by experiments using measured room impulse responses. The subjective results indicated that this method provides superior speech quality to each of the individual methods: blind deconvolution and spectral subtraction.