Blind estimation of reverberation time based on the distribution of signal decay rates

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 329-332

  Wen, Jimi Y C ^a   Habets, Emanuël A P ^b   Naylor, Patrick A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal analysis; Blind estimation; Reverberation time

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; BLIND EQUALIZATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS; BLIND ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION TIME;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 51449092190     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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