A data-driven approach to optimizing spectral speech enhancement methods for various error criteria

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 530-541

  Erkelens, Jan ^a   Jensen, Jesper ^a   Heusdens, Richard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Spectral distortion measures; Speech enhancement; Speech model

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; NOISE ABATEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DECISION-DIRECTED SPECTRAL VARIANCE ESTIMATOR; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL NOISE SUPPRESSION; SPECTRAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHODS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 34447099536     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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