A neural network based noise suppression method for transient noise control with low-complexity computation

Abstract

Over the decades, the noise-suppression (NS) methods for speech enhancement (SE) have been widely utilized, including the conventional signal processing methods and the deep neural networks (DNN) methods. Although stationary-noise can be suppressed successfully using conventional or DNN methods, it is significantly challenging while suppressing the non-stationary noise, especially the transient noise. Compared to conventional NS methods, DNN NS methods may work more effectively under non-stationary noises by learning the noises' temporal-frequency characteristics. However, most DNN methods are challenging to be implemented on mobile devices due to their heavy computation complexity. Indeed, even a few low-complexity DNN methods are proposed for real-time purposes, the robustness and the generalization degrade for different types of noise. This paper proposes a single channel DNN-based NS method for transient noise with low computation complexity. The proposed method enhanced the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) while minimizing the speech's distortion, resulting in a superior improvement of the speech quality over different noise types, including transient noise.