Wavelet speech enhancement based on time-scale adaptation

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1620-1637

  Bahoura, Mohammed ^a   Rouat, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive thresholds; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition; Teager energy operator; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TEAGER ENERGY OPERATORS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34548186349     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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