A noise-estimation algorithm for highly non-stationary environments

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 220-231

  Rangachari, Sundarrajan ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise estimation; Non stationary noise; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISY SPEECH POWER SPECTRUM; NON-STATIONARY NOISE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 29444448046     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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