Processing of reverberant speech for time-delay estimation

Yegnanarayana, B. ; Prasanna, S. R. M. ; Duraiswami, R. ; Zotkin, D. (2005) Processing of reverberant speech for time-delay estimation IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13 (6). pp. 1110-1118. ISSN 1063-6676

Full text not available from this repository.

Official URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arn...

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSA.2005.853005

Abstract

In this paper, we present a method of extracting the time-delay between speech signals collected at two microphone locations. Time-delay estimation from microphone outputs is the first step for many sound localization algorithms, and also for enhancement of speech. For time-delay estimation, speech signals are normally processed using short-time spectral information (either magnitude or phase or both). The spectral features are affected by degradations in speech caused by noise and reverberation. Features corresponding to the excitation source of the speech production mechanism are robust to such degradations. We show that these source features can be extracted reliably from the speech signal. The time-delay estimate can be obtained using the features extracted even from short segments (50-100 ms) of speech from a pair of microphones. The proposed method for time-delay estimation is found to perform better than the generalized cross-correlation (GCC) approach. A method for enhancement of speech is also proposed using the knowledge of the time-delay and the information of the excitation source.

Item Type:Article
Source:Copyright of this article belongs to IEEE.
ID Code:57762
Deposited On:29 Aug 2011 11:58
Last Modified:29 Aug 2011 11:58

Repository Staff Only: item control page