Artificial intelligence pattern-recognition based noise...

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H04B 1/66 (2006.01) G10L 3/00 (1990.01)

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CA 2062462

A system is provided to reduce noise from a signal of speech that is contaminated by noise. The present system employs an artificial intelligence that is capable of deciding upon the adjustment of a filter subsystem by distinguishing between noise and speech in the spectrum of the incoming signal of speech plus noise. The system does this by testing the pattern of a power or envelope function of the frequency spectrum of the incoming signal. The system determines that the fast changing portions of that envelope denote speech whereas the residual is determined to be the frequency distribution of the noise power. This determination is done while examining either the whole spectrum, or frequency bands thereof, regardless of where the maximum of the spectrum lies. In another embodiment of the invention, a feedback loop is incorporated which provides incremental adjustments to the filter by employing a gradient search procedure to attempt to increase certain speech-like features in the system's output. The present system does not require consideration of minima of functions of the incoming signal or pauses in speech. Instead, the present system employs an artificial intelligence system to which is input the envelope pattern of the incoming signal of speech and noise. The present system then filters out of this envelope signal the rapidly changing variations of the envelope over fixed time windows.

L'invention est un système pour réduire le bruit dans un signal vocal dégradé par le bruit. Le système utilise une intelligence artificielle qui peut ajuster un sous-système de filtrage en distinguant l'un de l'autre le bruit et un signal vocal dans le spectre du signal d'entrée. Le système examine la répartition de la puissance dans le spectre des fréquences de ce signal ou l'enveloppe de ce spectre. Le système attribue les variations rapides de l'enveloppe au signal vocal et considère que le résidu est le spectre de fréquence du bruit. Ceci se fait en examinant le spectre entier, ou des bandes de fréquences faisant partie de ce spectre, quel que soit le point du spectre où se trouve le maximum. Dans une autre concrétisation de l'invention, une boucle à rétroaction est incorporée au système pour produire des ajustements incrémentiels du filtre en utilisant une recherche du gradient maximal pour tenter d'accentuer certaines caractéristiques vocales du signal de sortie. Le système actuel n'a pas besoin d'examiner les minimas de certaines fonctions du signal d'entrée, non plus que les périodes de silence. Il utilise une intelligence artificielle dans laquelle l'enveloppe du signal vocal et du bruit est introduite. Le système extrait alors de cette enveloppe les variations rapides de cette dernière dans des fenêtres de temps fixes.

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