Improved a posteriori speech presence probability estimation based on a likelihood ratio with fixed priors

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 910-919

  Gerkmann, Timo ^a   Breithaupt, Colin ^a   Martin, Rainer ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Generalized likelihood ratio; Softgain; Speech analysis; Speech enhancement; Speech presence probability (SPP)

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; CLEAN SPEECH; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; POSTERIORI; PRIOR PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY ESTIMATOR; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SOFTGAIN; SPECTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SPEECH DISTORTION; TIME-FREQUENCY POINTS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 66149120230     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.921764     Document Type: Article

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