Speech enhancement using a masking threshold constrained kalman filter and its heuristic implementations

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-31

  Ma, Ning ^a,b,d   Bouchard, Martin ^a,b   Goubran, Rafik A ^a,c,e  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d VideoCodes Inc   (United States)

^e Professional Engineers Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory masking; Kalman filtering; Perceptual post filtering; Speech enhancement; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MASKING; PERCEPTUAL POST-FILTERING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; WAVELETS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC METHODS; KALMAN FILTERING; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33745000281     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.858515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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