This book serves as a basic reference for those interested in the application of metaheuristics
to speech enhancement. The major goal of the book is to explain the basic concepts of
optimization methods and their use in heuristic optimization in speech enhancement to
scientists practicing engineers and academic researchers in speech processing. The authors
discuss why it has been a challenging problem for researchers to develop new enhancement
algorithms that aid in the quality and intelligibility of degraded speech. They present
powerful optimization methods to speech enhancement that can help to solve the noise reduction
problems. Readers will be able to understand the fundamentals of speech processing as well as
the optimization techniques how the speech enhancement algorithms are implemented by utilizing
optimization methods and will be given the tools to develop new algorithms. The authors also
provide a comprehensive literature survey regarding the topic.
