Kalman tracking of linear predictor and harmonic noise models for noisy speech enhancement

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-83

  Yan, Qin ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Zavarehei, Esfandiar ^a   Milner, Ben ^b   Darch, Jonathan ^b   White, Paul ^c   Andrianakis, Ioannis ^c  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formant; HNM; Kalman

Indexed keywords

DECODING; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

DENOISING; KALMAN TRACKING; LINEAR PREDICTORS; VITERBI METHOD;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 34548272534     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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