A method and apparatus estimate additive noise in a noisy signal using an iterative
technique within a recursive framework. In particular, the noisy signal is divided
into frames and the noise in each frame is determined based on the noise in another
frame and the noise determined in a previous iteration for the current frame. In
one particular embodiment, the noise found in a previous iteration for a frame
is used to define an expansion point for a Taylor series approximation that is
used to estimate the noise in the current frame.