Segregation of unvoiced speech from nonspeech interference

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1306-1319

  Hu, Guoning ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS; NEW APPROACHES; SEGMENTATION AND GROUPING; SEGREGATION PROCESS; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SPEECH SEGREGATION; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TIME-FREQUENCY SEGMENTS; TWO STAGES; UNVOICED SPEECH; VOICED SPEECH;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOICE;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 49249107353     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2939132     Document Type: Article

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