Noise reduction

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H03G 7/00 (2006.01) G10L 21/02 (2006.01)

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CA 1332626

ABSTRACT A noise reduction system for enhancing noisy speech signals by performing a spectral decomposition on the signal, passing each spectral component through a non-linear stage which progressively attenuates lower intensity spectral components (uncorrelated noise) but passes higher intensity spectral components (correlated speech) relatively unattenuated, and reconstituting the signal. Frames of noisy signal are transformed into the frequency domain by an FFT device, with windowing. Each transformed frame is then processed to effect a non-linear transfer characteristic, which is linear above a soft "knee" region, and rolls off below, and transformed back to a reconstituted time-domain signal with reduced noise by an IFFT device (with overlapping). A level control matches the signal to the characteristic. In further embodiments, the characteristic may vary between frequency bands, and may be matched to speech formants by tracking formants using an LSP technique.

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