Mixed decision-based noise adaptation for speech enhancement

A robust noise adaptation method based on a mixed decision technique is proposed for speech enhancement. Objective speech quality tests, in terms of the SEGSNR improvement and the Itakura-Saito distortion, demonstrate its superiority in comparison with both hard- and soft-decision-based methods.

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