New insights into the noise reduction Wiener filter

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1218-1233

  Chen, Jingdong ^a,b   Benesty, Jacob ^a,c   Huang, Yiteng ^a,b   Doclo, Simon ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Microphone arrays; Noise reduction; Speech distortion; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WAVE EFFECTS;

MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NOISE REDUCTION WIENER FILTERS; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH DISTORTION INDEX;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 34047156412     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.860851     Document Type: Article

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