Monaural speech segregation based on fusion of source-driven with model-driven techniques

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 464-476

  Radfar, Mohammad H ^a,b   Dansereau, Richard M ^a   Sayadiyan, Abolghasem ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

CASA; Envelope extraction; Harmonic modelling; MIXMAX estimator; Monaural speech segregation; Multi pitch tracking; Speech coding; Speech processing; Vector quantization

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CODEBOOKS; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS (CASA); HARMONIC SYNTHESIZERS; SPEECH SEGREGATION;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 34250023466     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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