Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and apparatus for real-time speech enhancement in noisy environments
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Application No.: US16129467Application Date: 2018-09-12
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Publication No.: US10811030B2Publication Date: 2020-10-20
- Inventor: Mi Zhang , Kai Cao , Xiao Zeng , Haochen Sun
- Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
- Applicant Address: US MI East Lansing
- Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: US MI East Lansing
- Agency: Quarles & Brady LLP
- Main IPC: G10L21/00
- IPC: G10L21/00 ; G10L21/02 ; G10L21/0264 ; G10K11/175 ; G10L21/0232 ; G10L25/03 ; G10L21/0272

Abstract:
A system may perform speech enhancement of audio data in real-time by suppressing noise components that are present in the audio data while preserving speech components. The system may include an in-ear module and a separate signal processing module that is wirelessly communicatively coupled to the in-ear module. The system may include non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) dictionaries capable of identifying frequency band components associated with speech and frequency band components associated with noise. The NMF dictionaries may be trained using voice samples and noise samples. The NMF dictionaries may be applied to noisy speech data to produce an NMF representation of the speech data which may then be applied using a dynamic mask to the noisy speech data in order to suppress the noise components of the noisy speech data and produce speech enhanced data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190080710A1 SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME SPEECH ENHANCEMENT IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2019-03-14
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