Environmental Interference Cancellation of Speech with the Radial Basis Function Networks: An Experimental Comparison

In this paper, we use Radial Basis Function Networks (RBFN) for solving the problem of environmental interference cancellation of speech signal. We show that the Second Order Thin- Plate Spline (SOTPS) kernel cancels the interferences effectively. For make comparison, we test our experiments on two conventional most used RBFN kernels: the Gaussian and First order TPS (FOTPS) basis functions. The speech signals used here were taken from the OGI Multi-Language Telephone Speech Corpus database and were corrupted with six type of environmental noise from NOISEX-92 database. Experimental results show that the SOTPS kernel can considerably outperform the Gaussian and FOTPS functions on speech interference cancellation problem.

Authors:

• Nima Hatami

Keywords:

• Environmental interference
• interference cancellation of speech
• Radial Basis Function networks
• Gaussian and TPS kernels.

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