Suppression of noise in speech using the saber method
- 24 March 2005
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 3, 606-609
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp.1978.1170572
Abstract
A stand alone noise suppression algorithm is described for reducing the spectral effects of acoustically added noise in speech. A fundamental result is developed which shows that the spectral magnitude of speech plus noise can be effectively approximated as the sum of magnitudes of speech and noise. Using this simple phase independent additive model, the noise bias present in the short time spectrum is reduced by subtracting off the expected noise spectrum calculated during nonspeech activity. After bias removal, the time waveform is recalculated from the modified magnitude and saved phase. This Spectral Averaging for Bias Estimation and Removal, or SABER method requires only one FFT per time window for analysis and synthesis.Keywords
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