SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING AUDIO QUALITY OF FM RECEIVERS

Systems and methods are described for enhancing the audio quality of an FM receiver. In embodiments described herein, quadrature L−R demodulation is applied to a composite baseband signal output by an FM demodulator to obtain an L−R noise signal. A channel quality measure is calculated based on the L−R noise signal and is used to control whether a pop suppression technique is applied to an L+R signal obtained from the composite baseband signal to detect and remove noise pulses therefrom. The channel quality measure and the L−R noise signal are also leveraged to perform single-channel noise suppression in the frequency domain on an L−R signal obtained from the composite baseband signal and on the L+R signal. The channel quality measure is also used to control the application of a fast fading compensation process that replaces noisy segments of the L−R and L+R signal with replacement waveforms generated via waveform extrapolation.