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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1994
Joji Kane, Nara, JP;
Akira Nohara, Nishinomiya, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels. A cepstrum analysis process is performed for the spectrum signals, and a peak of the obtained cepstrum is detected in response to the cepstrum analysis result. Thereafter, a speech signal interval of the inputted noisy speech signal is detected in response to the detected peak, and a noise is predicted in the speech signal in response to the detected speech signal interval. Then, the predicted noise is canceled in the spectrum signals thereby outputting noise-suppressed spectrum signals. Finally, the noise-suppressed spectrum signals are combined and are inverse Fourier-transformed, thereby outputting a noise-suppressed speech signal.