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A Survey on Techniques for Enhancing Speech

by Tayseer M. F. Taha, Amir Hussain
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 179 - Number 17
Year of Publication: 2018
Authors: Tayseer M. F. Taha, Amir Hussain
10.5120/ijca2018916290

Tayseer M. F. Taha, Amir Hussain . A Survey on Techniques for Enhancing Speech. International Journal of Computer Applications. 179, 17 ( Feb 2018), 1-14. DOI=10.5120/ijca2018916290

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author = { Tayseer M. F. Taha, Amir Hussain },
title = { A Survey on Techniques for Enhancing Speech },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Feb 2018 },
volume = { 179 },
number = { 17 },
month = { Feb },
year = { 2018 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-14 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume179/number17/28957-2018916290/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2018916290 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
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Abstract

Speech enhancement is used in almost all the modern communication systems. It is obvious that when speech is being transmitted, its quality may degrade due to interference in the environment it is passing through. Some of the interferences that may affect the speech quality of transit include acoustic additive noise, acoustic reverberation or white Gaussian noise. This paper focuses on the techniques that appeared in the literature to enhance the signal of speech. Various methods used include wiener filter, statistical methods, subspace method, basic spectral subtraction method and spectral subtraction. In this paper authors will discuss various such methods along with their advantages and disadvantages. The discussion will also review the studies conducted by other researchers on other machine learning techniques, such as Neural network, Deep Neural Network ,Convolution Neural Networks and optimization techniques which used for the enhancement of speech.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Conventional speech enhancement methods Adaptive filtering methods Multi-modal methods