Speech enhancement using bionic wavelet transform and adaptive threshold function

Abstract

By the use of the Bionic Wavelet Transform and adaptive threshold function, this paper presents an improved wavelet-based speech enhancement method, Adaptive Bionic Wavelet Speech Enhancement. Due to the integration of human auditory system model into the wavelet transform, the main advantage of the proposed method is that the over thresholding of speech segments which is usually occurred in conventional wavelet-based speech enhancement schemes can be avoided. Then it can track the variation of noisy speech without the estimation of the a priori knowledge of SNR. As a consequence, the enhanced speech quality of the proposed method can be increased substantially from those of conventional approaches.