An assessment on the fundamental limitations of spectral subtraction

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Evans, Nicholas W D ^a   Mason, John S D ^a   Liu, Wei M ^a   Fauve, Benoît ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947684423     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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