Multichannel Direction-Independent Speech Enhancement Using Spectral Amplitude Estimation

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1147-1156

  Lotter, Thomas ^a   Benien, Christian ^b   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microphone arrays; Spectral amplitude estimation; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MICROPHONES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0242271425     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703305025     Document Type: Article

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