ISCA Archive Eurospeech 2003
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 2003

Integration of noise reduction algorithms for Aurora2 task

Takeshi Yamada, Jiro Okada, Kazuya Takeda, Norihide Kitaoka, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Shingo Kuroiwa, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Takanobu Nishiura, Mitsunori Mizumachi, Satoshi Nakamura

To achieve high recognition performance for a wide variety of noise and for a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios, this paper presents the integration of four noise reduction algorithms: spectral subtraction with smoothing of time direction, temporal domain SVD-based speech enhancement, GMM-based speech estimation and KLT-based comb-filtering. Recognition results on the Aurora2 task show that the effectiveness of these algorithms and their combinations strongly depends on noise conditions, and excessive noise reduction tends to degrade recognition performance in multicondition training.