Binaural and multiple-microphone signal processing motivated by auditory perception

2008 Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Proceedings, HSCMA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 98-103

  Stern, Richard M ^a   Gouvêa, Evandro ^a   Kim, Chanwoo ^a   Kumar, Kshitiz ^a   Park, Hyung Min ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory models; Binaural hearing; Reverberation; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MECHANISMS; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY MODELS; BINAURAL HEARING; FREE SPEECH; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 50449092155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2008.4538697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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