Variational probabilistic speech separation using microphone arrays

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-149

  Rennie, Steven J ^a   Aarabi, Parham ^a   Frey, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximate inference; Microphone arrays; Phase based speech processing; Probabilistic graphical models; Robust speech recognition; Speech separation; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE INFERENCE; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; PHASE-BASED SPEECH PROCESSING; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SEPARATION; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; GRAPHIC METHODS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MICROPHONES; POWER SPECTRUM; SENSORS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 53349111173     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876865     Document Type: Article

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