A method to measure the effect of noise reduction algorithms using simultaneous speech and noise

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 356-361

  Hagerman, Björn ^a   Olofsson, Åke ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INTENSITY MODULATION; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPEECH SIGNAL; TIME DEPENDENT SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1942423053     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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