ENHANCE

NAME

enhance -- enhance clean speech signal

SYNOPSIS

enhance (-i item) (-c mu-law|-f fixdB|-s spectralsubdegree) (-A label|-X label) file

DESCRIPTION

enhance is a program to perform a range of enhancement operations on speech signals.

Options and their meanings are:

-I Identify program and exit.

-i item Select input item.

-c mulaw Perform amplitude compression on the signal. This reduces the dynamic range of the signal, making quieter components more salient. A mu-law compression function is used: Select compression-style enhancement using a mu-law compression function: output_energy = log(1+mu.input_energy)/log(1+mu). A mu value of 10 gives modest compression.

-s spectsubdegree Perform spectral subtraction on the signal. This reduces the amount of background noise in the signal by subtracting a fraction of the quietest frames from all frames (in the frequency domain). The degree is a percentage factor on the energy found in the quietest frames. A degree of 100 gives modest background noise removal.

-f fixdB Select fixed amplitude scaling by the specified number of decibels.

-A label Only process the regions annotated with this label. You can specify multiple regions.

-X label Process all regions except those annotated with this label. You can specify multiple regions.

INPUT ITEMS

1.xx Any speech item.

VERSION/AUTHOR

1.0 - Mark Huckvale.
1.1 - John Rye.
2.0 - Mark Huckvale.

Fri Jul 09 14:54:42 2004