Speech enhancement for non-stationary noise environment by adaptive wavelet packet

Abstract

We consider the non-stationary or colored noise estimation by wavelet thresholding method. First, we propose node dependent thresholding for adaptation in colored or non-stationary noise. Next, we suggest a noise estimation method based on spectral entropy using histogram of intensity instead of estimation method based on median absolute deviation (MAD). And we use a modified hard thresholding to alleviate time-frequency discontinuities. The proposed methods are evaluated on various noise conditions - white Gaussian noise, car interior noise, F-16 cockpit noise, pink noise, and speech babble noise. We compare our proposed methods with the conventional one with level dependent thresholding based on MAD.