A comparative intelligibility study of single-microphone noise reduction algorithms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1777-1786

  Hu, Yi ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL MODELS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35248891610     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2766778     Document Type: Article

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