Single channel speech enhancement based on masking properties of the human auditory system

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 126-137

  Virag, Nathalie ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory properties; Masking; Noise reduction; Speech recognition; Subtractive type algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SINGLE CHANNEL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0033097443     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.748118     Document Type: Article

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