Speech dereverberation using backward estimation of the late reverberant spectral variance

IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 384-388

  Habets, Emanuël A P ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^a   Cohen, Israel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; SIGNAL DEGRADATIONS; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION; SUPPRESSION ALGORITHMS; TWO COMPONENTS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 62749197612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EEEI.2008.4736553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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