Speech enhancement using nonlinear microphone array based on noise adaptive complementary beamforming

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E83-A, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 866-876

  Saruwatarj, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementary beamforming; Microphone array; Noise adaptation; Spectral subtraction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY BEAMFORMING; DIRECTIVITY PATTERN; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NONLINEAR MICROPHONE ARRAY; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 0034188039     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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