A cross-spectrum weighting algorithm for speech enhancement and array processing: Combining phase-shift information and stationary signal properties

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 952-964

  Schwetz, Ingo ^a,c   Gruhler, Gerhard ^b   Obermayer, Klaus ^c  

^a University of Applied Sciences of Heilbronn ^*  (Germany)

^b HEILBRONN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES;

CROSS-SPECTRUM WEIGHTING ALGORITHM; MEAN SQUARE ERROR ESTIMATOR; PHASE-SHIFT INFORMATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH;

EID: 31744435550     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2149767     Document Type: Article

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