Blind Normalization of Speech From Different Channels

Details Blind Normalization of Speech From Different Channels Blind Normalization of Speech From Different Channels

2003-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0304019v1

Computer Science

Computation and Language

25 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1121/1.1755235

We show how to construct a channel-independent representation of speech that has propagated through a noisy reverberant channel. This is done by blindly rescaling the cepstral time series by a non-linear function, with the form of this scale function being determined by previously encountered cepstra from that channel. The rescaled form of the time series is an invariant property of it in the following sense: it is unaffected if the time series is transformed by any time-independent invertible distortion. Because a linear channel with stationary noise and impulse response transforms cepstra in this way, the new technique can be used to remove the channel dependence of a cepstral time series. In experiments, the method achieved greater channel-independence than cepstral mean normalization, and it was comparable to the combination of cepstral mean normalization and spectral subtraction, despite the fact that no measurements of channel noise or reverberations were required (unlike spectral subtraction).

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