Multi-microphone noise reduction techniques as front-end devices for speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 3-12

  Bitzer, Joerg ^a   Simmer, Klaus Uwe ^b   Kammeyer, Karl Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Aureca GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; MICROPHONES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION METHODS; SUPERDIRECTIVE BEAMFORMERS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034818519     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00042-X     Document Type: Article

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