Compensation of channel and noise distortions combining normalization and speech enhancement techniques

Speech Communication

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 115-126

  Menéndez Pidal, Xavier ^a   Chen, Ruxin ^a   Wu, Duanpei ^a   Tanaka, Mick ^a  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CEPSTRAL MEAN NORMALIZATION (CMN); GAUSSIAN ATTENUATION ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHODS; VARIANCE-SCALING METHODS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0342419440     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00049-2     Document Type: Article

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