Perceptual wavelet-representation of speech signals and its application to speech enhancement

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-22

  Pintér, István ^a  

^a JOHN VON NEUMANN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SOFT-THRESHOLDING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH REPRESENTATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET FRAME BASED DENOISING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0029735242     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1996.0001     Document Type: Article

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