A Bayesian estimation approach for speech enhancement using hidden Markov models
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- Vol. 40 (4) , 725-735
- https://doi.org/10.1109/78.127947
Abstract
A Bayesian estimation approach for enhancing speech signals which have been degraded by statistically independent additive noise is motivated and developed. In particular, minimum mean square error (MMSE) and maximum a posteriori (MAP) signal estimators are developed using hidden Markov models (HMMs) for the clean signal and the noise process. It is shown that the MMSE estimator comprises a weighted sum of conditional mean estimators for the composite states of the noisy signal, where the weights equal the posterior probabilities of the composite states given the noisy signal. The estimation of several spectral functionals of the clean signal such as the sample spectrum and the complex exponential of the phase is also considered. A gain-adapted MAP estimator is developed using the expectation-maximization algorithm. The theoretical performance of the MMSE estimator is discussed, and convergence of the MAP estimator is proved. Both the MMSE and MAP estimators are tested in enhancing speech signals degraded by white Gaussian noise at input signal-to-noise ratios of from 5 to 20 dB.<>Keywords
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