Neural Noise Suppression

Low Power, High Quality Speech Enhancement

The Syntiant® NDP120 and NDP115 Neural Decision Processor™ are optimized for high performance, cost-effective neural network (AI) processing of audio and sensor inputs for battery powered devices and other space and power constrained systems. Classical single channel noise suppression algorithms only suppress stationary noise. However, single channel AI noise suppression offers the promise to suppress wind noise and other non-stationary noises such as babble noise, construction site noise, etc. AI noise suppression also offers the promise to suppress background noise to a far greater extent without the associated typical speech distortion. The promise of AI noise suppression is fulfilled at low power with the family of mh acoustics® DWF-ML AI noise suppression neural networks running on the Syntiant Core 2™ of NDP120 and NDP115.

Neural Noise Suppression

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS

Performance

The table below compares the DWF-ML AI noise suppression on NDP120 and NDP115 to widely cited baseline neural networks in the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenges of the scientific community. The 2020 DNS Challenge provides a common test set of clean and wideband noise speech files for comparing noise suppression performance. The set contains 12 different noise categories at SNR levels between 0dB and 25dB. Most commonly, a single lumped score across the entire test set is used.

For 3 DWF-ML sized implementations on NDP120 and NDP115 and reference networks from DNS1 (2020) and DNS3 (2021), the table lists the size (number of parameters), ITU-T P.862.2 Corrigendum 1 (WB-PESQ) scores achieved on the DNS1 test set, delay, NDP implementation, and power consumption. As an additional performance reference, a very large network (FCRN/PESQNet) is also included.

Size WB-PESQ Delay NDP120 NDP115 Power
Noisy Microphone 2.23
DNS1 Reference 1.26M 2.65 8ms
DNS3 Reference 2.8M 3.15 16ms
FCRN/PESQNet 5.2M 3.47 32ms
DWF-ML Small 141K 3.35 16ms 0.7mW
DWF-ML Medium 296K 3.42 16ms 0.8mW
DWF-ML Large 589K 3.50 16ms 1.0mW

APPLICATIONS

Connect the real world to the digital world with our cost-saving, next-generation edge AI interface that greatly improves the user’s experience by bringing speech, vision, and sensor processing to your device.

Mobile Phones

Earbuds & Hearing Aids

Personal Computers

Smart Home

IOT Endpoints

AR / VR HMDs

Media Streamers

Vehicles & Automotive

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