Combined acoustic echo control and noise reduction for hands-free telephony

Signal Processing

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-32

  Gustafsson, S ^a   Martin, R ^a   Vary, P ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic echo control; Noise reduction; Psychoacoustics; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

HANDS FREE TELEPHONY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031678817     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(97)00173-4     Document Type: Article

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