The Advantage of Implementing Martin’s Noise Reduction Algorithm in Critical Bands Using Wavelet Packet Decomposition and Hilbert Transform

In this paper we address the problem of enhancing single channel speech signal corrupted with additive background noise. We present a new scheme which utilizes a different time frequency representation along with the psychoacoustic features of human ear and combines these features with the well-known noise estimation method of minimum tracking. Instead of Fourier transform, we use a perceptual wavelet packet decomposition of speech, and perform spectral tracking and filtering on the envelope of the analytic signal.