ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004

Source separation using particle filters

Mital Gandhi, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Our goal is to study the statistical methods for source separation based on temporal and frequency specific features by using particle filtering. Particle filtering is an advanced state-space Bayesian estimation technique that supports non-Gaussian and nonlinear models along with time-varying noise, allowing for a more accurate model of the underlying system dynamics. We present a system that combines standard speech processing techniques in a novel method to separate two noisy speech sources. The system models the pitch and amplitude over time separately, and adopts particle filtering to reduce complexity by generating a discrete distribution that approximates well the desired continuous distribution. Preliminary results that demonstrate the separation of two noisy sources using this system are presented.