Suppression of late reverberation effect on speech signal using long-term multiple-step linear prediction

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 534-545

  Kinoshita, Kinoshita ^a   Delcroix, Marc ^a,b   Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Miyoshi, Masato ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^b Pixela Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Dereverberation; Multi step linear prediction (MSLP); Reverberation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); DEREVERBERATION; MULTI-STEP LINEAR PREDICTION (MSLP); MULTICHANNEL; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; REVERBERANT CONDITIONS; REVERBERATION EFFECTS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SINGLE CHANNELS; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH UTTERANCES; TRAINING DATUM;

IMPULSE RESPONSE; REMELTING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 65249167097     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2009015     Document Type: Article

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