Hybrid probabilistic adaptation mode controller for generalized sidelobe cancellers applied to multi-microphone speech enhancement

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new adaptation mode controller (AMC) for a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC)-based speech enhancement system. Here, a likelihood ratio for target speech presence was first estimated and then utilized to estimate both the local target speech presence probability (SPP) and global SPP. Next, the estimated SPPs were applied to the design of an AMC that controlled the parameters of adaptive filters for an adaptive blocking matrix (ABM) and noise canceller (NC). In particular, the combination of local and global SPPs was applied to the AMC in the ABM, whereas only global SPPs were used for the NC. Finally, a multiple-microphone speech enhancement system was constructed on the basis of a GSC having the proposed AMC. The performance of the speech enhancement system was subsequently evaluated in terms of the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) and the cepstral distortion (CD) for car noise conditions. It was shown from this evaluation that a speech enhancement system using the proposed AMC method provided better performance than conventional AMC methods using power ratios between the target and non-target directional signals, the inter-channel normalized cross-correlation, and the local SPPs only.