Permutation inconsistency in blind speech separation: Investigation and solutions

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Ikram, Muhammad Z ^a   Morgan, Dennis R ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Blind separation; Permutation inconsistency; Room acoustics; Speech enhancement; Speech signals

Indexed keywords

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ROOM ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 11144230905     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.834441     Document Type: Article

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