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Abstract
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are widely used in various fields such as healthcare, education, and finance. The quality of ASR output depends on the quality of the audio input, which may be affected by various factors such as noise, coding artifacts, and channel characteristics. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the quality of AMR-encoded speech using various techniques including noise reduction, de-artifacting, and channel equalization. Experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly improve the speech recognition accuracy of AMR-encoded speech.
Introduction
Speech recognition has become an essential technology in modern society. However, the quality of the speech recognition system depends on the quality of the input speech. The acoustic environment may introduce various noises, distortions, and artifacts that can degrade the quality of speech signals, resulting in low recognition accuracy. Moreover, speech signals are usually compressed to reduce storage and transmission overheads. However, the compression process can introduce even more distortion and coding artifacts.
Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) is a widely used speech coding standard that can provide decent speech quality at low bit rates. AMR is used in various applications such as mobile communication, video conferencing, and voice messaging. However, AMR-encoded speech signals are susceptible to various distortions such as channel fading, noise, and coding artifacts. Therefore, enhancing the speech quality of AMR-encoded speech is essential to improve the performance of speech recognition systems.
In this paper, we propose a method to improve the quality of AMR-encoded speech using various techniques including noise reduction, de-artifacting, and channel equalization. The proposed method can be used to enhance the performance of both speech recognition and speaker verification systems that operate on AMR-encoded speech signals.
Related work
Various techniques have been proposed to improve the quality of speech signals. For example, noise reduction techniques can remove the additive noise from speech signals, thus improving the perceptual quality of speech. De-artifacting techniques can remove the coding artifacts introduced by compression and transmission, thus enhancing the intelligibility of speech. Channel equalization techniques can compensate for the channel distortion, thus improving the speech signal quality.
Several studies have investigated the quality of AMR-encoded speech signals. For example, [1] studied the effect of channel fading on the quality of AMR-encoded speech, while [2] investigated the impact of packet loss on the speech quality. However, there is limited research on improving the quality of AMR-encoded speech using various enhancement techniques.
Proposed Method
Figure 1 shows the block diagram of the proposed method. The method consists of four main blocks: signal preprocessing, noise reduction, de-artifacting, and channel equalization. In the following sections, we describe each block in more detail.
Signal preprocessing
The input speech signal may contain various distortions such as background noise, reverberation, and non-stationarity. Signal preprocessing aims to enhance the speech signal quality by removing these distortions. In our method, we perform the following steps for signal preprocessing:
• Pre-emphasis: This step amplifies the high-frequency components of the speech signal that are often masked by the low-frequency components.
• Framing: This step divides the speech signal into frames of fixed duration (., 20 ms).
• Windowing: This step applies a window function (., Hamming window) to each frame to reduce spectral leakage.
• Power normalization: This step normalizes the power of each frame to reduce the effect of differences in signal amplitude.
Noise reduction
Noise reduction aims to remove the additive noise from the speech signal. Various noise reduction techniques have been proposed, such as spectral subtraction, Wiener filtering, and Kalman filtering. In our method, we use a modified version of spectral subtraction that adapts the noise suppression level based on the estimate of the noise power spectral density. The noise reduction algorithm consists of the following steps:
• Estimate the noise power spectral density (PSD) using a period of speech-free signal.
• Compute the PSD of the noisy speech signal.
• Estimate the speech presence probability (SPP) using the PSD of the noisy speech signal and the estimated noise PSD.
• Compute the noise suppression gain using the SPP and a weighting function (., spectral weighting).
• Apply the gain to the frequency domain representation of the noisy speech signal.
De-artifacting
De-artifacting aims to remove the coding artifacts introduced by the compression and transmission of the speech signal. The compression artifacts can manifest as blockiness, ringing, and blurring in the time-frequency domain. Various de-artifacting techniques have been proposed, such as post-filtering, block matching, and wavelet transform. In our method, we use an iterative filtering algorithm that enhances the speech signal by correcting the magnitude and phase of the spectral components. The de-artifacting algorithm consists of the following steps:
• Estimate the spectral envelope of the speech signal using linear predictive coding (LPC).
• Compute the spectral residual of the speech signal (., the difference between the original spectrum and the estimated spectral envelope).
• Perform iterative filtering on the spectral residual by applying a series of spectral gain functions that enhance the speech signal.
• Reconstruct the enhanced speech signal by combining the estimated spectral envelope with the filtered spectral residual.
Channel equalization
Channel equalization aims to compensate for the channel distortion introduced by the transmission medium. Various channel equalization techniques have been proposed, such as linear equalization, decision feedback equalization, and maximum likelihood sequence estimation. In our method, we use a frequency-domain equalizer that compensates for the linear time-invariant (LTI) channel distortions. The channel equalization algorithm consists of the following steps:
• Estimate the channel impulse response (CIR) using a known training sequence.
• Compute the frequency response of the CIR using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT).
• Estimate the inverse of the channel frequency response using a minimum phase filter.
• Apply the inverse filter to the frequency domain representation of the enhanced speech signal.
Experimental Results
We evaluate the performance of the proposed method using a benchmark dataset of AMR-encoded speech signals. The dataset consists of 1000 speech segments (each of 10 seconds duration) that were encoded using the AMR codec at kbps bit rate. The dataset includes various distortions such as white noise, babble noise, echo, and reverberation.
We compare the performance of the proposed method with two baseline methods: a no-processing method and a noise reduction method. The no-processing method represents the performance of the raw AMR-encoded speech signal, while the noise reduction method represents the performance of AMR-encoded speech signals after applying the noise reduction algorithm only.
We use the speech recognition accuracy (SRA) as the evaluation metric. The SRA is defined as the percentage of correctly recognized words in the test speech segment. We use a state-of-the-art ASR system that operates on the enhanced speech signals.
Table 1 shows the experimental results. The proposed method achieves an SRA of %, which is significantly higher than the SRA of the no-processing method (%) and the noise reduction method (%). This indicates that the proposed method can effectively improve the quality of AMR-encoded speech signals by applying various enhancement techniques.
Conclusion
In this paper, we proposed a method to improve the quality of AMR-encoded speech using various enhancement techniques including noise reduction, de-artifacting, and channel equalization. Experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly improve the speech recognition accuracy of AMR-encoded speech. The proposed method can be used to enhance the performance of both speech recognition and speaker verification systems that operate on AMR-encoded speech signals. Future work can investigate the performance of the proposed method on other speech coding standards and in other applications such as voice messaging and speech-to-text transcription.