Speech intelligibility enhancement using tunable equalization filter

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chanda, Pinaki Shankar ^a   Park, Sungjin ^b  

^a LG Soft India Pvt Ltd   (India)

^b LG Research Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Speech intelligibility; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL FILTERS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

AMBIENT NOISE; SPEECH REPRODUCTION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34547505658     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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