Intelligibility improvements obtained by an enhancement method applied to speech corrupted by noise and reverberation

Speech Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 165-175

  Shields, Paul W ^a   Campbell, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032142015     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00035-1     Document Type: Article

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