CSA-BF: A Constrained Switched Adaptive Beamformer for Speech Enhancement and Recognition in Real Car Environments

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 733-745

  Zhang, Xianxian ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Beam steering; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Speech noise adaptive beamforming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0347968240     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.818034     Document Type: Article

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