Abstract:In order to solve the problem of underdetermined blind speech separation for weak sparse speech signals, according to the partial approximate W-disjoint orthogonality of weak sparse speech signals, a blind mixing matrix estimation method is proposed based on single-source dominated areas. In this method, according to the property of the single-source dominant areas, single-source observational samples are extracted by a binary row vector; then the mixing matrix is estimated by K means clustering and Principal Component Analysis(PCA) on extracted samples. Simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the performance of separated speech signals, and its averaged Signal To Noise Ratio(SNR) is improved by 10 dB compared to K-PCA method.