A new method of spectral subtraction is proposed in this paper. Through sel
ective application of common spectral magnitude subtraction, distortion in
the processed speech can be reduced significantly without compromising on t
he amount of residual noise, The decision for the selection can be obtained
from the noisy speech itself, A scheme for reducing the amount of residual
noise as well as its musical nature is also included. The proposed algorit
hm is tested on both white noise and F16 noise with highly favorable result
s.