A Two-Sensor Noise Reduction System: Applications for Hands-Free Car Kit

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1125-1134

  Guérin, Alexandre ^a   Le Bouquin Jeannès, Régine ^a   Faucon, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cross spectral subtraction; Hands free telephony; Noise estimation; Optimization.; Two sensor noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION THEORY; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 10744224680     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703305098     Document Type: Article

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