Conventional howling detection algorithms exhibit dramatic performance degradations in the presence of harmonic components of speech that have the similar properties with the howling components. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a cepstrum preprocessing-based howling detection algorithm. First, the impact of howling components on cepstral coefficients is studied in both theory and simulation. Second, according to the theoretical results, the cepstrum pre-processing-based howling detection algorithm is proposed. The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can increase the detection probability at the same false alarm rate. Objective measurements, such as Speech Distortion (SD) and Maximum Stable Gain (MSG), further confirm the validity of the proposed algorithm.

Authors: Peng, Renhua; Li, Jian; Zheng, Chengshi; Chen, Xiaoliang; Li, Xiaodong
Affiliations: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 135 (October 2013) Paper Number: 8978
Publication Date: October 16, 2013 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Signal Processing
Permalink: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=17026

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