TR2008-012

Speech Denoising Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Priors
Citation: Wilson, K.W.; Raj, B.; Smaragdis, P.; Divakaran, A., "Speech Denoising Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Priors", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ISSN: 1520-6149, pp. 4029-4032, March 2008 (IEEE Xplore)
Date:August 2008
MERL Contacts:Kevin W. Wilson, Bhiksha Raj

We present a technique for denoising speech using nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) in combination with statistical speech and noise models. We compare our new technique to standard NMF and to a state-of-the-art Wiener filter implementation and show improvements in speech quality across a range of interfering noise types.

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