Publication: Speech Denoising Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Sparseness Constraints
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2012
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A speech denoising method based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is presented in this paper. With respect to previous related works, this paper makes two contributions. First, our method does not assume a priori knowledge about the nature of the noise. Second, it combines the use of the Kullback-Leibler divergence with sparseness constraints on the activation matrix, improving the performance of similar techniques that minimize the Euclidean distance and/or do not consider any sparsification. We evaluate the proposed method for both, speech enhancement and automatic speech recognitions tasks, and compare it to conventional spectral subtraction, showing improvements in speech quality and recognition accuracy, respectively, for different noisy conditions.
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Proceedings of: IberSPEECH 2012 Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012.
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Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, Kullback-Leibler Divergence, Sparseness Constraints, Speech Denoising, Speech Enhancement, Automatic Speech Recognition
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Torre Toledano, D., et al. (eds.) Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages: IberSPEECH 2012 Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings. (pp. 207-216). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; 328). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.