Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2015, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 187-193.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2015.02.008

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Adaptive Speech Enhancement for Microphone Array

XU Jin1,2, ZHAO Yi-bo1,2, GUO Ye-cai1,2   

  1. 1. School of Electronic & Information Engineering, Nanjing University of
    Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    2. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and
    Equipment, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2014-10-08 Revised:2014-12-06 Online:2015-03-30 Published:2014-12-06

Abstract: In a complex speech environment, microphone array speech enhancement techniques
can effectively extract target speech signals and eliminate noise. In a conventional
microphone array, the beam forming weighting coefficients are fixed. To flexibly control
the beam forming direction of the microphone array and eliminate residual noise due to
side-lobes, this paper presents an adaptive enhancement technique for microphone array
speech. A microphone array with an adaptive filter is used to form a controllable generalized
sidelobe canceller (GSC), followed by improved spectral subtraction with a Chebyshev
window function. Simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively remove
noise, improving the performance by about 3.5 dB with respect to the ordinary GSC.

Key words: microphone array, adaptive filter, improved generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC), spectral subtraction, speech enhancement

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