Dereverberation

Yiteng Arden Huang, Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

15 Scopus citations

Abstract

Room reverberation is one of the two major causes (the other is background noise) of speech degradation and there has been an increasing need for speech dereverberation in various speech processing and communication applications. Although it has been studied for decades, speech dereverberation remains a challenging problem from both a theoretical and practical perspective. This chapter provides a methodical overview of speech dereverberation algorithms. They are classified into three categories: source model-based speech enhancement algorithms for dereverberation, separation of speech and reverberation via homomorphic transformation, and speech dereverberation by channel inversion and equalization. We outline the basic ideas behind these approaches, explain the assumptions they make, and discuss their characteristics as well as performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Handbooks
PublisherSpringer
Pages929-944
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameSpringer Handbooks
ISSN (Print)2522-8692
ISSN (Electronic)2522-8706

Keywords

  • Channel Impulse Response
  • Clean Speech
  • Minimum Mean Square Error
  • Speech Intelligibility
  • Speech Signal

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Dereverberation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this