Reverberation time estimation from speech signals based on blind room impulse response identification.
A reverberation time (RT) estimation method is presented which consists of three steps, the anechoic speech is first recovered by maximizing the skewness of the linear prediction residual of the reverberant speech, then room impulse response (RIR) is identified using the recovered anechoic and reverberant speech, finally RIR is truncated to compensate the estimation errors and RT is estimated using the Schroeder's method. Simulations show that the proposed method successfully estimates RT less than 1.4 s and is insensitive to the speech content such as the number of long pauses and sharp offsets.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
Lifu
L
Wu
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Xiaojun
X
Qiu
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Ian
I
Burnett
Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
Yecai
Y
Guo