A two-stage algorithm for one-microphone reverberant speech enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 774-784

  Wu, Mingyang ^b   Wang, DeLiang ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b FAIR ISAAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; Inverse filtering; One microphone algorithm; Reverberant speech enhancement; Reverberation time; Spectral subtraction

Indexed keywords

DEREVERBERATION; INVERSE FILTERING; ONE MICROPHONE ALGORITHM; REVERBERANT SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; REVERBERATION TIME; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL FILTERS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33745761716     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.858066     Document Type: Article

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