Speech signal enhancement through adaptive wavelet thresholding

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-133

  Johnson, Michael T ^a   Yuan, Xiaolong ^b   Ren, Yao ^a  

^a Mar Quette University   (United States)

^b Motorola China Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive wavelets; Bionic Wavelet Transform; Denoising; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BIONICS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE FILTERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTIVE WAVELET THRESHOLDING; BIONIC WAVELET TRANSFORM (BWT); DENOISING; SPEECH SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33846967785     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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