Low Delay Noise Reduction and Dereverberation for Hearing Aids

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Löllmann, Heinrich W ^a   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; DEREVERBERATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GENERALIZED SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION; HANDS-FREE; LOW DELAY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; NEW SYSTEM; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NONUNIFORM; REVERBERATION TIME; SIGNAL DELAYS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY; TIME DOMAIN;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEARING AIDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67749120610     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/437807     Document Type: Article

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