Research Article

Practically Efficient Blind Speech Separation Using Frequency Band Selection Based on Magnitude Squared Coherence and a Small Dodecahedral Microphone Array

Table 4

Experimental results.

) Number of selected bands Computational complexity SIR improvement (dB) Segmental SNR (dB) Cepstral distortion (dB)

(1,1,1) (conventional method) 200 1.0 24.4 7.85 2.65
(1/3,1/2,1) 134 0.45 22.3 7.80 2.51
(1/3,1/2,1/2) 97 0.24 21.8 7.74 2.48
(1/5,1/3,1/2) 77 0.15 20.6 7.52 2.30
(1/5,1/3,1/3) 64 0.1 20.8 7.45 2.30
Uniformly spaced 64 0.1 19.9 6.18 2.58