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An improved noise suppression system (400) is disclosed which performs speech quality enhancement upon speech-plus-noise signal available at the input (205) to generate a clean speech signal at the output (265) by spectral gain modification. The noise suppression system of the present invention incl

An improved noise suppression system (400) is disclosed which performs speech quality enhancement upon speech-plus-noise signal available at the input (205) to generate a clean speech signal at the output (265) by spectral gain modification. The noise suppression system of the present invention includes a background noise estimator (420) which generates and stores an estimate of the background noise power spectral density based upon pre-processed speech (215), as determined by the detected minima of the post-processed speech energy level. This post-processed speech (255) may be obtained directly from the output of the noise suppression system, or may be simulated by multiplying the pre-processed speech energy (225) by the channel gain values of the modification signal (245). This technique of implementing post-processed signal to generate the background noise estimate (325) provides a more accurate measurement of the background noise energy since it is based upon much cleaner speech signal. As a result, the present invention performs acoustic noise suppression in high ambient noise backgrounds with significantly less voice quality degradation.

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An improved noise suppression system for attenuating the background noise from a noisy input signal to produce a noise-suppressed output signal, said noise suppression system comprising: means for separating the input signal into a plurality of pre-processed signals representative of selected freque

An improved noise suppression system for attenuating the background noise from a noisy input signal to produce a noise-suppressed output signal, said noise suppression system comprising: means for separating the input signal into a plurality of pre-processed signals representative of selected frequency channels; means for modifying the gain of each of said plurality of pre-processed signals in response to estimates of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in each individual channel to provide a plurality of post-processed signals; and means for generating said SNR estimates in each individual channel based upon the current signal energy estimate of the pre-processed signal in each individual channel and the previous noise energy estimate of the pre-processed signal in each individual channel as determined by the detected minima of said plurality of post-processed signals.