Blind speech separation in a meeting situation with maximum SNR beamformers

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Araki, Shoko ^a,b   Sawada, Hiroshi ^a   Makino, Shoji ^a,b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Maximum SNR beamformer; Online clustering; Scaling; Speech separation; Voice activity detector

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MAXIMUM SNR BEAMFORMERS; ONLINE CLUSTERING; SCALING; SPEECH SEPARATION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547498831     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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