A perceptually motivated approach for speech enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 457-465

  Hu, Yi ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Multitaper power spectrum estimation; Multiwindow covariance matrix estimation; Perceptual weighting; Spectral subtraction method; Speech enhancement; Subspace method

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MULTITAPER POWER SPECTRUM ESTIMATION;

SPEECH;

EID: 0042362201     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.815936     Document Type: Article

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