A dual-microphone noise reduction algorithm for mobile communications

Abstract

A dual-microphone noise reduction method based on the coherence function for mobile communications is suggested in this paper. The proposed algorithm exploits the Kalman filter and the spectral subtraction method in order to improve the speech quality in different noisy environments. The adopted method is easy to implement and needs no estimation of interfering signals statistics. The proposed algorithm is tested with different distances between the two microphones using recorded data and objective criteria such as: PESQ and SNR. The good performance of the suggested algorithm and its low complexity, making it a promised solution for dual-channel mobile phones.