“…Several methods have been proposed in the last few decades to solve the problem of noise reduction and speech enhancement. Among these methods, time domain methods such as subspace approach [11,15], frequency domain methods like discrete cosine transform based methods [6], spectral subtraction [5,17,18,39], minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator [11,25], Weiner filtering [2,4], compressive sensing based methods [13,37,38] and timefrequency domain methods such as wavelet or wavelet packet based thresholding methods [3,10,19,23,35] are the prominent ones. These methods have their own advantages and disadvantages.…”