Soft mask methods for single-channel speaker separation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1766-1776

  Reddy, A M ^a   Raj, B ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Signal separation; Soft masks; Speaker separation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BINARY MASKS; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HARD MASKS; MASK METHODS; MIXED SIGNALS; NATIVE FORMS; RELIABLE COMPONENTS; SIGNAL SEPARATION; SINGLE CHANNELS; SOFT MASKS; SPEAKER SEPARATION; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPECTROGRAM; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUBBANDS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; SEPARATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 56249144712     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.901310     Document Type: Article

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