Enhancement of alaryngeal speech utilizing spectral subtraction and minimum statistics

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 3704-3709

  Kabir, Raonaak ^a   Greenblatt, Aaron ^a   Panetta, Karen ^a   Agaian, Sos ^b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaryngeal speech; Cosine transforms; Dct; Electrolarynx; Minimum statistics; Spectral subtraction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; HARDWARE; IMAGE CODING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ALARYNGEAL SPEECH; DCT; ELECTROLARYNX; MINIMUM STATISTICS; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION;

COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 57749095480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLC.2008.4621049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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