Acoustic beamforming exploiting directionality of human speech sources

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 365-368

  Betlehem, Terence ^a   Williamson, Robert C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

BEAMFORMERS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0141855317     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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