A blind speech enhancement algorithm for the suppression of late reverberation and noise

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3989-3992

  Löllmann, Heinrich W ^a   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blind estimation; Dereverberation; Spectral weighting; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BACKGROUND NOISE; BLIND ESTIMATION; BLIND SPEECH; DEREVERBERATION; EXISTING METHOD; MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES; NOISY SPEECH SIGNALS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; RULE BASED; SIGNAL DELAYS; SPECTRAL WEIGHTING; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BLIND EQUALIZATION; ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70349223892     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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