Relaxed statistical model for speech enhancement and a priori SNR estimation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 870-881

  Cohen, Israel ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Parameter estimation; Sequential estimation; Spectral analysis; Speech enhancement; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; SEQUENTIAL ESTIMATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION THEORY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 27644563039     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851940     Document Type: Article

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