Temporal and spectral processing methods for processing of degraded speech: A review

IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India)

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-148

  Krishnamoorthy, P ^a   Prasanna, S R Mahadeva ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Multi speaker speech; Noisy speech; Reverberant speech; Speech enhancement; Temporal processing and spectral processing

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MULTI-SPEAKER SPEECH; NOISY SPEECH; REVERBERANT SPEECH; TEMPORAL PROCESSING AND SPECTRAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAINS;

REVERBERATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

PROCESSING;

EID: 64649095787     PISSN: 02564602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4602.49103     Document Type: Review

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