A new approach for speech enhancement based on the adaptive thresholding of the wavelet packets

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 927-940

  Ghanbari, Yasser ^a   Karami Mollaei, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Noisy speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Speech processing; Wavelet thresholding

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOICE ACTIVATED INPUT DEVICES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; NOISY SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM; WAVELET PACKETS; WAVELET THRESHOLDING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33745387383     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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