Real-time speech intelligibility enhancement based on the background noise analysis

Proceedings of the 4th IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications, SPPRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 287-292

  Sang, Hoon Lee ^a   Jeong, Hong ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dual channel; Noise analysis; Speech intelligibility enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOBILE PHONES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TELEPHONE SETS; TURNING;

BACKGROUND NOISES; CELLULAR PHONES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DUAL-CHANNEL; NOISE ANALYSES; NOISE ANALYSIS; NOISE SIGNALS; NOISY CONDITIONS; PAPER ADDRESSES; REAL TIMES; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 56549124872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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