Enhancement and Bandwidth Compression of Noisy Speech

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1979, Pages 1586-1604

  Lim, Jae S ^a   Oppenheim, Alan V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY - BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; NOISE, ACOUSTIC; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH;

INTELLIGIBILITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0018642851     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1979.11540     Document Type: Article

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