Noise spectrum estimation in adverse environments: Improved minima controlled recursive averaging

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 466-475

  Cohen, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NOISE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0041360463     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.811544     Document Type: Article

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