Noisy speech enhancement using harmonic-noise model and codebook-based post-processing

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1194-1203

  Zavarehei, Esfandiar ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^b   Yan, Qin ^c  

^a DSP Audio Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Harmonic noise model; Noise reduction; Speech enhancement; Speech reconstruction; Weighted codebook mapping

Indexed keywords

ADD-ON MODULES; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODELS; HARMONIC-NOISE MODEL; HARMONICITY; INDEPENDENT SPEECH; MAPPING METHODS; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE REDUCTION METHODS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITIES; PERFORMANCE GAINS; POST-PROCESSING; POST-PROCESSING METHODS; RESTORATION METHODS; SPEAKER VARIABILITIES; SPECTRAL ENERGIES; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHODS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS; SPEECH SPECTRUM; SUB BANDS; WEIGHTED CODEBOOK MAPPING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PROCESSING; RESTORATION;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 64349109447     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.894516     Document Type: Article

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