Recurrent Neural Network-Based Dictionary Learning for Compressive Speech Sensing

Abstract

We propose a novel dictionary learning technique for compressive sensing of speech signals based on the recurrent neural network. First, we exploit the recurrent neural network to solve an $$\ell _{0}$$ -norm optimization problem based on a sequential linear prediction model for estimating the linear prediction coefficients for voiced and unvoiced speech, respectively. Then, the extracted linear prediction coefficient vectors are clustered through an improved Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm to generate codebooks for voiced and unvoiced speech, respectively. A dictionary is then constructed for each type of speech by concatenating a union of structured matrices derived from the column vectors in the corresponding codebook. Next, a decision module is designed to determine the appropriate dictionary for the recovery algorithm in the compressive sensing system. Finally, based on the sequential linear prediction model and the proposed dictionary, a sequential recovery algorithm is proposed to further improve the quality of the reconstructed speech. Experimental results show that when compared to the selected state-of-the-art approaches, our proposed method can achieve superior performance in terms of several objective measures including segmental signal-to-noise ratio, perceptual evaluation of speech quality and short-time objective intelligibility under both noise-free and noise-aware conditions.