Psychoacoustically-motivated adaptive β-order generalized spectral subtraction for cochlear implant patients

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4665-4668

  Li, Junfeng ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^b   Jiang, Hui ^c   Akagi, Masato ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive order GSS; Band importance function; Cochlear implant; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

BABBLE NOISE; BACKGROUND NOISE; BAND-IMPORTANCE FUNCTION; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; COCHLEAR IMPLANT PATIENTS; GENERALIZED SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE REDUCTIONS; RESIDUAL NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 70349212542     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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