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IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences 2008 E91-A(3):775-781; doi:10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.3.775
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Copyright © 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Regular Section -- Papers -- Speech and Hearing

Robust Speech Spectra Restoration against Unspecific Noise Conditions for Pitch Detection

Xin XU1, Noboru HAYASAKA1 and Yoshikazu MIYANAGA1

1 The authors are with the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo-shi, 060-0814 Japan. E-mail: steven{at}csm.ist.hokudai.ac.jp


  Abstract

This paper proposes a new algorithm named Adaptive Running Spectrum Filtering (ARSF) to restore the amplitude spectra of speech corrupted by additive noises. Based on the pre-hand noise estimation, adaptive filtering is used in speech modulation spectra according to the noise conditions. The periodic structures in the amplitude spectra are kept against noise distortion. Since the amplitude spectral structures contain the information of fundamental frequency, which is the inverse of pitch period, ARSF algorithm is added into robust pitch detection to increase the accuracy. Compared with the conventional methods, experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves the robustness of pitch detection against noise conditions with several types and SNRs.

Key Words: ARSF, noise robust, pitch detection, modulation spectra

Manuscript received April 2, 2007. Manuscript revised July 24, 2007.


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