Recursive Closed-Form Optimization of Spectral Audio Power Allocation for Near End Listening Enhancement

Konferenz: Sprachkommunikation 2010 - 9. ITG-Fachtagung
06.10.2010 - 08.10.2010 in Bochum, Deutschland

Tagungsband: Sprachkommunikation 2010

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Sauert, Bastian; Vary, Peter (Institute of Communication Systems and Data Processing, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany)

Inhalt:
In mobile telephony, near end listening enhancement is desired by the near end listener who perceives not only the clean far end speech but also ambient background noise. A typical scenario is mobile telephony in acoustical background noise such as traffic or babble noise. In such a situation, it is often not acceptable/possible to increase the audio power. In this contribution we analyse the calculation rules of the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) and develop a recursive closed-form solution which maximizes the SII under the constraint of an unchanged average power of the audio signal. This solution has very low complexity compared to a previous approach of the authors and is thus suitable for real-time processing.