Speech spectral amplitude estimators using optimally shaped Gamma and Chi priors

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Andrianakis, I ^a   White, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chi; Gamma; MAP; MMSE; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

A POSTERIORI; CHI; FOCAL POINTS; GAMMA; MMSE; OPTIMAL VALUES; QUALITY OF SPEECHES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SHORT TIMES; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDES; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TESTS;

SPEECH;

EID: 55049095834     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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