Phase-based dual-microphone speech enhancement using a prior speech model

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-118

  Shi, Guangji ^a   Aarabi, Parham ^a   Jiang, Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microphone array; Phase error filtering; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Time frequency masking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACHES; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; DELAY AND SUMS; FILTER PARAMETERS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; LOW SNR; MICROPHONE ARRAY; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PHASE-ERROR FILTERING; POST-FILTERING; RECOGNITION ACCURACIES; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH FEATURES; SPEECH MODELS; TIME-DELAY ESTIMATIONS; TIME-FREQUENCY MASKING; WORD ERROR RATES;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MICROPHONES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TIME DELAY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 50449090971     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876870     Document Type: Article

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