Date of Award
2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Engineering Science
Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Supervisor
Dr. Vijay Parsa
Abstract
Improving the quality and intelligibility of speech signals continues to be an important topic in mobile communications and hearing aid applications. This thesis explored the possibilities of improving the quality of corrupted speech by cascading a log Minimum Mean Square Error (logMMSE) noise reduction system with a Harmonic Speech Enhancement (HSE) system. In HSE, an adaptive comb filter is deployed to harmonically filter the useful speech signal and suppress the noisy components to noise floor. A Bandwidth Extension (BWE) algorithm was applied to the enhanced speech for further improvements in speech quality. Performance of this algorithm combination was evaluated using objective speech quality metrics across a variety of noisy and reverberant environments. Results showed that the logMMSE and HSE combination enhanced the speech quality in any reverberant environment and in the presence of multi-talker babble. The objective improvements associated with the BWE were found to be minimal
Recommended Citation
Venkatasubramanian, Arvind, "DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF HARMONIC SPEECH ENHANCEMENT AND BANDWIDTH EXTENSION" (2011). Digitized Theses. 3323.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/3323