Generalized postfilter for speech quality enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-64

  Grancharov, Volodya ^a,b   Plasberg, Jan H ^a   Samuelsson, Jonas ^a   Kleijn, W Bastiaan ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c Coding Technologies AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Additive noise; Distortion measure; Multiplicative noise; Noise reduction; Perceptually optimal processing; Postfilter; Speech coding; Speech enhancement; Tandeming

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION MEASURE; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTUALLY OPTIMAL PROCESSING; POSTFILTER; TANDEMING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADDITIVE NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PHASE NOISE; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 64849092071     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.909327     Document Type: Article

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