Affiliations: [a] Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SJB Institute of Technology, Kengeri, Bengaluru, affiliated to VTU, Belagavi, India | [b] Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, ACS College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Corresponding author: Rahul R. Rai, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SJB Institute of Technology, #67, BGS Health & Education City, Dr. Vishnuvardhan Road, Kengeri, Bengaluru, affiliated to VTU, Belagavi, India. E-mail: rahul.r.rai@gmail.com.
Abstract: Background noise often distorts the speech signals obtained in a real-world environment. This deterioration occurs in certain applications, like speech recognition, hearing aids. The aim of Speech enhancement (SE) is to suppress the unnecessary background noise in the obtained speech signal. The existing approaches for speech enhancement (SE) face more challenges like low Source-distortion ratio and memory requirements. In this manuscript, Recalling-Enhanced Recurrent Neural Network (R-ERNN) optimized with Chimp Optimization Algorithm based speech enhancement is proposed for hearing aids (R-ERNN-COA-SE-HA). Initially, the clean speech and noisy speech are amassed from MS-SNSD dataset. The input speech signals are encoded using vocoder analysis, and then the Sample RNN decode the bit stream into samples. The input speech signals are extracted using Ternary pattern and discrete wavelet transforms (TP-DWT) in the training phase. In the enhancement stage, R-ERNN forecasts the associated clean speech spectra from noisy speech spectra, then reconstructs a clean speech waveform. Chimp Optimization Algorithm (COA) is considered for optimizing the R-ERNN which enhances speech. The proposed method is implemented in MATLAB, and its efficiency is evaluated under some metrics. The R-ERNN-COA-SE-HA method provides 23.74%, 24.81%, and 19.33% higher PESQ compared with existing methods, such as RGRNN-SE-HA, PACDNN-SE-HA, ARN-SE-HA respectively.
