A noise reduction preprocessor for mobile voice communication

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1046-1058

  Martin, Rainer ^a   Malah, David ^b   Cox, Richard V ^c   Accardi, Anthony J ^d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum statistics; Noise reduction; Spectral analysis synthesis; Speech coding; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SPEECH CODING;

MIXED EXCITATION LINEAR PREDICTION (MELP); NOISE ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4344575129     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704312138     Document Type: Article

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