Optimization of the impulse response length: Application to noisy and highly reverberant rooms

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 741-749

  Faiget, Laurent ^a,b,c,d   Legros, Claude ^a,e   Ruiz, Robert ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

^b Lab d'Acoustique Appliquée   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; INTEGRATION; MICROPHONES; MICROPHONISM; OPTIMIZATION; REVERBERATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMPULSE RESPONSE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0032163195     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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