Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Method, preprocessor, speech recognition system, and program product for extracting target speech by removing noise
The present invention relates to a method, preprocessor, speech recognition system, and program product for extracting a target speech by removing noise. In an embodiment of the invention target speech is extracted from two input speeches, which are obtained through at least two speech input devices installed in different places in a space, applies a spectrum subtraction process by using a noise power spectrum (Uω) estimated by one or both of the two speech input devices (Xω(T)) and an arbitrary subtraction constant (α) to obtain a resultant subtracted power spectrum (Yω(T)). The invention further applies a gain control based on the two speech input devices to the resultant subtracted power spectrum to obtain a gain-controlled power spectrum (Dω(T)). The invention further applies a flooring process to said resultant gain-controlled power spectrum on the basis of arbitrary Flooring factor (β) to obtain a power spectrum for speech recognition (Zω(T)).
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Masafumi Takashi Osamu
Nishimura Fukuda Ichikawa