Single-microphone late-reverberation suppression in noisy speech by exploiting long-term correlation in the DFT domain

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3997-4000

  Erkelens, Jan S ^a   Heusdens, Richard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echo suppression; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BARK SPECTRAL DISTORTION; CLEAN SPEECH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERFERENCE RATIO; LONG-TERM CORRELATIONS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NOISY SPEECH; SPEECH SIGNALS; TIME SPAN;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 70349205583     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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