Abstract
The aim of this work is to reconstruct clean speech solely from a stream of noise-contaminated MFCC vectors, as may be encountered in distributed speech recognition systems. Speech reconstruction is performed using the ETSI Aurora back-end speech reconstruction standard which requires MFCC vectors, fundamental frequency and voicing information. In this work, fundamental frequency and voicing are obtained using maximum a posteriori prediction from input MFCC vectors, thereby allowing speech reconstruction solely from a stream of MFCC vectors. Two different methods to improve prediction accuracy in noisy conditions are then developed. Experimental results first establish that improved fundamental frequency and voicing prediction is obtained when noise compensation is applied. A series of human listening tests are then used to analyse the reconstructed speech quality, which determine the effectiveness of noise compensation in terms of mean opinion scores.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1943-1946 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Event | 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Sep 2009 → 10 Sep 2009 |
Conference
Conference | 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Brighton |
Period | 6/09/09 → 10/09/09 |