Patent Document ID: 9058820
Application ID: 13899264
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system configured to perform voice enhancement on noisy audio signals, the system comprising: one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising: a preprocessing module configured to segment an input signal into discrete successive time windows, the input signal conveying audio comprising a speech component superimposed on a noise component, the time windows including a first time window; a transform module configured to perform a transform on individual time windows of the input signal to obtain corresponding sound models of the input signal in the individual time windows, a first sound model being a mathematical representation of harmonics in the first time window of the input signal; a statistics extraction module configured to determine statistics associated with the sound models of individual time windows of the input signal, the statistics including a statistic for the first time window extracted from the first sound model; a time-striping module configured to determine probabilities that the portions of the speech component represented by the input signal in the individual time windows are vocalized portions or non-vocalized portions based on the statistics determined for the sound models individual time windows; a vocalized speech module configured to process sound models of time windows in which the speech component represented by the input signal is classified as vocalized portions based on the probabilities, the first sound model being processed by the vocalized speech module responsive to the speech component represented by the input signal during the first time window being classified as a vocalized portion based on a corresponding probability; and a non-vocalized speech module configured to process sound models of time windows in which the speech component represented by the input signal is classified as non-vocalized portions based on the probabilities, the first sound model being processed by the non-vocalized speech module responsive to the speech component represented by the input signal during the first time window being classified as a non-vocalized portion based on the corresponding probability.