Efficient real-time noise estimation without explicit speech, non-speech detection: An assessment on the aurora corpus

International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 985-988

  Evans, Nicholas W D ^a   Mason, John S ^a   Fauve, Benoit ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; MOBILE TELEPHONY; NOISE ESTIMATION; NON SPEECH; REAL TIME; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 2942574205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSP.2002.1028255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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