Enhancement of electrolarynx speech using adaptive noise cancelling based on independent component analysis

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 670-678

  Niu, Hai Jun ^a   Wan, Ming Xi ^a   Wang, Su Pin ^a   Liu, Han Jun ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Adaptive noise cancelling; Electrolarynx speech; Independent component analysis; Intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE FILTERS;

ADAPTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE REDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH REHABILITATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 0345099658     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02349975     Document Type: Article

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