Speech Enhancement by Kalman

Filtering with a Particle FilterBased Preprocessor

Abstract:
To reduce no stationary noise in real environments, we propose to use a particle filter as a
preprocessor of Kalman filtering. From noisy input speech signals, the autoregressive (AR)
model parameters are estimated by using a particle filter. Clean speech signal is estimated by a
Kalman filter configured with the estimated parameters. Experimental results show that when
speech signal is corrupted by babble noise, the proposed algorithm improves the output SNR by
1.5 dB.

Existing method:

A Kalman filter is an effective algorithm to enhance speech signals from a series of

measurements observed over time, containing random noise and other inaccuracies. The Kalman
filter achieves a faster convergence behavior than a normalized least-mean-square (NLMS)based adaptive filter. There have been numerous studies on Kalman filtering for speech
enhancement [1]. Even though noise observed in real situations has a no stationary and dynamic
feature, previous studies on Kalman filter were mostly applied by using the stationary white
Gaussian noise assumption for simplicity.

Demerits:
1. In filtering process more noise will be coming.

Proposed method:
We present a sequential no stationary speech enhancement method using the Kalman filtering
combined with a particle filter to estimate the parameters of speech signal and the variance of no
stationary additive noise. The sequential importance sampling (SIS) is used to estimate the
parameters of the particle filter and clean speech signal is estimated by the particle filter in a

frame-wise manner and is applied to a Kalman filter. In this work, speech signal is modeled as an
autoregressive (AR) process. The noise variance and the parameters of the AR process are
estimated in the Kalman filter. Our experimental results shows that the proposed Kalman
filtering with a particle filter leads to significant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain and improves
the speech quality remarkably.

Merits:
1. In output part less noise.