Speech enhancement using magnitude and phase spectrum compensation

Abstract

Background noise is a severe problem in speech related systems. In order to solve this problem, it is important to eliminate the noise from the noisy speech, which is called speech enhancement. Typical speech enhancement algorithms only operate on the short-time magnitude spectrum, while keeping the short-time phase spectrum unchanged for synthesis. Or only compensate the phase spectrum while keeping the magnitude spectrum unchanged. In this paper, we present a novel method by changing both magnitude and phase spectra to produce a modified complex spectrum. The test of an objective speech quality measure PESQ, and spectrogram analysis had showed that the proposed method can obtain better enhancement performance.