A new approach to reducing alarm noise in speech

Yilmaz Gül; Aladdin M. Ariyaeeinia; Oliver Dewhirst

A new approach to reducing alarm noise in speech

Yilmaz Gül, Aladdin M. Ariyaeeinia, Oliver Dewhirst

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Abstract

This paper presents a new single channel noise reduction method for suppressing periodic alarm noise in telephony speech. The presence of background alarm noise can significantly detract from the intelligibility of telephony speech received by emergency services, in particular, by the fire brigade control rooms. The attraction of the proposed approach is that it targets the alarm noise without affecting the speech signal. This is achieved through discriminating the alarm noise by appropriately modelling the contaminated speech. The effectiveness of this method is confirmed experimentally using a set of real speech data collected by the Kent Fire Brigade HQ (UK).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proc. 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Pages	1225-1228
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003 - Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 1 Sept 2003 → 4 Sept 2003

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Conference	8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Geneva
Period	1/09/03 → 4/09/03

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Gül, Y, Ariyaeeinia, AM & Dewhirst, O 2003, A new approach to reducing alarm noise in speech. in Proc. 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. pp. 1225-1228, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, 1/09/03. <https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/archive_papers/eurospeech_2003/e03_1225.pdf>

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