Text-directed speech enhancement employing phone class parsing and feature map constrained vector quantization

Speech Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-189

  Hansen, John H L ^a   Pellom, Bryan L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

PHONE CLASS DIRECTED CONSTRAINTS; TEXT DIRECTED SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0031119079     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(97)00003-4     Document Type: Article

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