Discrete S-Transform Based Speech Enhancement

S-transform (ST) is an effective time-frequency representation method with the advantages of short-time Fourier transform and wavelet transform. This paper utilizes the advantages of the power spectral subtraction method and the speech enhancement method to presents a novel speech enhancement algorithm based on discrete ST. Firstly, the speech in time domain is transformed by ST to joint time-frequency domain for spectral subtraction so that the clear speech spectrum can be obtained and then the inverse ST is performed to acquire the enhanced speech in time domain. Simulation experiment is done to verify the validity of the method. The experiment results show that the proposed method can effectively enhance the de-noising ability and improve the signal-to-noise ratio