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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Huan-yu Su, Irvine, CA (US);
Huan-Yu Su, Irvine, CA (US);
QOSOUND, INC., San Clemente, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a method, non-transitory computer program product and system for an improved noise suppression technique for speech enhancement. It operates on speech signals from a single or multiple input sources. Background noise monitoring is performed with one or multiple input speech signals to determine if the input speech contains active voice. If the absence of active voice is detected, the spectrum of the input speech is used to update a long-term noise spectrum estimate. In addition, the input from one or more secondary microphones can be used to update a short-term noise spectrum estimate. The input speech spectrum is then compared to the long-term and/or short-term noise spectra, and a selective spectrum gain based shaping is applied to the input speech spectrum to reduce noise.