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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2013
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoshi Matsuo, Yokohama, JP;
FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A speech enhancement apparatus includes: a noise estimating unit which estimates a noise component contained in a speech signal for each frequency band; a signal-to-noise ratio computing unit which computes, for each frequency band, a signal-to-noise ratio; a gain computing unit which selects a frequency band whose computed signal-to-noise ratio indicates that the signal component contained in the speech signal for the frequency band is recognizable, and which determines a gain indicating the degree of enhancement to be applied to the speech signal in accordance with the signal-to-noise ratio of the selected frequency band; and an enhancing unit which amplifies an amplitude component of a frequency domain signal in each frequency band in accordance with the gain, and which corrects the amplitude component of the frequency domain signal by subtracting the noise component from the amplitude component in each frequency band.