Speech enhancement using super-Gaussian speech models and noncausal a priori SNR estimation

Speech Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 336-350

  Cohen, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Noncausal estimation; Spectral enhancement; Speech enhancement; Super Gaussian speech modeling

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NONCASUAL ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SUPER-GUASSIAN MODELING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 26444569329     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.02.011     Document Type: Article

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