Estimating cepstrum of speech under the presence of noise using a joint prior of static and dynamic features

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 218-233

  Deng, Li ^a   Droppo, Jasha ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic distortion model; Bayesian estimation; Conditional MMSE; Dynamic prior; Noise reduction; Weighted summation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION MODEL; BAYESIAN ESTIMATION; CONDITIONAL MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MMSE); DYNAMIC PRIOR; WEIGHTED SUMMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 2442551863     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.822627     Document Type: Article

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