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This paper presents a combined handsfree speech enhancement method based on a spatialpost-filter. The scheme uses a linear microphone array to capture a speech signal that has been corrupted by babble noise, car noise, and interference signals. Simulation results for real environment show that the proposed structure achieves a maximum interference suppression of 12 dB, an improvement of 6 dB over the delay and sum beamformer. Furthermore, the system is robust in the presence of distortion as opposed to the generalized sidelobe canceller. The subjective evaluation has shown that the combined system of delay and sum with the minimum mean square error estimator using a noncausal signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimator obtained 3.8 points on a fivepoint.
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Lee, S., Choi, K., Kim, S. (2007). Conventional Beamformer Using Post-filter for Speech Enhancement. In: Szczuka, M.S., et al. Advances in Hybrid Information Technology. ICHIT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4413. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77368-9_19
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