Enhancement of electrolarynx speech based on auditory masking

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 865-874

  Liu, Hanjun ^b   Zhao, Qin ^b   Wan, Mingxi ^a,b   Wang, Supin ^b  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrolarynx speech; Perceptual weighting; Spectral subtraction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLARYNX SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL WEIGHTING; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; NOISE REDUCTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; HUMANS; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 33646358742     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.872821     Document Type: Article

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