Subjective comparison and evaluation of speech enhancement algorithms

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 588-601

  Hu, Yi ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

ITU T P.835; Noise reduction; Speech enhancement; Subjective evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DYNASTAT; NOISY SPEECH CORPUS; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; WIENER-TYPE ALGORITHMS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 34447092407     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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