A microphone array processing technique for speech enhancement in a reverberant space

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 317-334

  Liu, Qing Guang ^a   Champagne, Benoît ^a   Kabal, Peter ^a,b  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microphone array; Room dereverberation; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ALL PASS COMPONENTS; BLIND DEREVERBERATION; CEPSTRUM DOMAIN; LOW TIME FILTERING; MICROPHONE ARRAY PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MINIMUM PHASE COMPONENTS; ROOM ACOUSTICS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PROCESSING; SYNCHRONOUS SPEECH SEGMENTS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0030172028     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(96)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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