Joint noise reduction and acoustic echo cancellation using the transfer-function generalized sidelobe canceller

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 623-635

  Reuven, Gal ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^b   Cohen, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; MICROPHONES; USER INTERFACES;

ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION; ACOUSTIC INTERFACE; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER; FULL DUPLEX HANDS-FREE COMMUNICATION; NOISE INTERFERENCES;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 34447095495     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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