Skip to main content

Speech enhancement for helicopter headsets with an integrated ANC-system for FPGA-platforms

Buy Article:

$15.00 + tax (Refund Policy)

During flights, helicopter pilots are exposed to high noise levels caused by rotor, engine and wind. To protect the health of passengers and crew, noise-dampening headsets are used. Modern active noise control (ANC) headset can further reduce the noise exposure for humans in helicopters. Internal or external voice transmission in the helicopter must be adapted to the noisy environment and speech signals are therefore heavily amplified. To improve the quality of communication in helicopters speech and background noise in the transmitted audio signals should be separated. Subsequently the noise components of the signal are eliminated. One established method for this type of speech enhancement is spectral subtraction. In this study, audio files recorded with an artificial head during a helicopter flight are used to evaluate a speech enhancement system with additional ANC capabilities on a rapid prototyping platform. Since both spectral subtraction and the ANC algorithm are computationally intensive, an FPGA is used. The results show a significant enhancement in the quality of the speech signals, which thus lead to improved communication. Furthermore, the enhanced audio signals can be used for voice recognition algorithms.

The requested document is freely available to subscribers. Users without a subscription can purchase this article.

Sign in

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

Publication date: 01 February 2023

More about this publication?
  • The Noise-Con conference proceedings are sponsored by INCE/USA and the Inter-Noise proceedings by I-INCE. NOVEM (Noise and Vibration Emerging Methods) conference proceedings are included. All NoiseCon Proceedings one year or older are free to download. InterNoise proceedings from outside the USA older than 10 years are free to download. Others are free to INCE/USA members and member societies of I-INCE.

  • Membership Information
  • INCE Subject Classification
  • Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
  • Access Key
  • Free content
  • Partial Free content
  • New content
  • Open access content
  • Partial Open access content
  • Subscribed content
  • Partial Subscribed content
  • Free trial content