Auditory model inversion and its application

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2005-04-14
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Auditorymodelhasbeenappliedtoseveralaspectsofspeechsignalprocessingfield,andappearstobeeffectiveinperformance.Thispaperpresentstheinversetransformofeachstageofonewidelyusedauditorymodel.Firstofallitisnecessarytoinvertcorrelogramandreconstructphaseinformationbyrepetitiousiterationsinordertogetauditory-nervefiringrate.ThenextstepistoobtainthenegativepartsofthesignalviathereverseprocessoftheHWR(HalfWaveRectification).Finallythefunctionsofinnerhaircell/synapsemodelandGammatonefiltershavetobeinverted.Thusthewholeauditorymodelinversionhasbeenachieved.Anapplicationofnoisyspeechenhancementbasedonauditorymodelinversionalgorithmisproposed.Manyexperimentsshowthatthismethodiseffectiveinreducingnoise.EspeciallywhenSNRofnoisyspeechislowitismoreeffectivethanothermethods.Thusthisauditorymodelinversionmethodgiveninthispaperisapplicabletospeechenhancementfield.