Monaural speech separation based on computational auditory scene analysis and objective quality assessment of speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2014-2023

  Li, Peng ^a   Guan, Yong ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Liu, Wenju ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Computational auditory scene analysis (CASA); Grouping; Monaural speech separation; Objective quality assessment of speech (OQAS); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS (CASA); GROUPING; MONAURAL SPEECH SEPARATION; OBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SPEECH (OQAS); SEGMENTATION;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SEPARATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 40949108726     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883258     Document Type: Article

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