Dual channel noise reduction method using phase difference-based spectral amplitude estimation

We present a dual-channel noise reduction method for small mobile devices. Our method incorporates phase difference between channels into the conventional MMSE spectral amplitude estimator. It is possible to suppress unwanted directional noise signals, whose incident direction is different from that of the target speech signal. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed conventional dual-channel noise reduction methods in SNR and PESQ evaluations in a noisy environment.

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