Blind dereverberation using correlation coefficients considering periodicity of voiced speech
Tatsuhiro Iida, Yukihiro Nomura, Jianming Lu, Hiroo Sekiya, and Takashi Yahagi
2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), pp.5539-5542, May, 2006. [pdf document]

<Abstract>

In this paper, we propose a blind frame-by-frame dereverberation using correlation coefficients considering periodicity of voiced speech. In the proposed method, the reference signal is derived by reducing speech periodicity from recovered signal of previous frame. The reference signal is used in order to estimate the impulse response in each frame. The recovered signal is obtained by using the estimated impulse response. From the investigation of performance evaluation, we show the proposed method is more effective than the conventional method in reducing reverberation without introducing speech distortion.