Speech enhancement combining statistical models and NMF with update of speech and noise bases

Speech enhancement based on statistical models has shown good performance, but the performance degrades when environment noise is highly non-stationary due to the stationary assumption. On the contrary, the template-based enhancement methods are more robust to non-stationary noise, but these are heavily dependent on a priori information present in training data. In order to get over both of the shortcomings, we propose a novel speech enhancement method which combines the statistical model-based enhancement scheme with the template-based enhancement. To reduce a dependency on a priori information, the speech and noise bases are updated simultaneously using the estimated speech presence probability, which is obtained from statistical model-based enhancement. Experimental results showed that the proposed method outperformed not only the statistical model-based and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approaches, but also their combination implemented with existing bases update rule in various kinds of noise.