Nonstationary noise estimation using low-frequency regions for spectral subtraction

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 465-468

  Yamashita, Kohei ^a   Shimamura, Tetsuya ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low frequency regions; Noise estimation; Nonstationary noise; Spectral subtraction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; NOISE ESTIMATION; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 20444384704     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2005.847864     Document Type: Article

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