Simultaneous detection and estimation approach for speech enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2348-2359

  Abramson, Ari ^a   Cohen, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Estimation; Signal detection; Siren noise; Spectral analysis; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; COST PARAMETERS; DECISION-DIRECTED; DETECTION AND ESTIMATIONS; MISSED DETECTIONS; MUSICAL NOISE; NOISE ENVIRONMENTS; SHORT-TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ESTIMATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTIONS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISTORTIONS; TRANSIENT NOISE;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC NOISE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIGNALING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 64149114042     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.904231     Document Type: Article

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