| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for suppressing acoustic background noise in a communication system. An operating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) level is reliably evaluated from channel energy (293) and background noise energy (294) values by a SNR level estimator (295). A minimum gain factor and a gain slope are adapted (290) depending on the operating SNR level. Using these adapted values and the channel SNR, the channel gain is selected (233). When the channel SNR is below a certain threshold, the channel is completely noise-like and the gain factor selected is minimum so that the channel is maximally attenuated. When the channel SNR is fairly high, the channel gain selected is 0 dB. For intermediate values of channel SNR, the gain factor selected lies between minimum and 0 dB.</p> |
