Enhanced speech features by single-channel joint compensation of noise and reverberation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 312-323

  Wölfel, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Joint removal of additive and reverberant distortions; Multistep linear prediction (MSLP); Particle filter; Speech feature enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); JOINT REMOVAL OF ADDITIVE AND REVERBERANT DISTORTIONS; MULTISTEP LINEAR PREDICTION (MSLP); PARTICLE FILTER; SPEECH FEATURE ENHANCEMENT;

AIR FILTERS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MICROPHONES; NONLINEAR FILTERING; REMELTING; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TARGET TRACKING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350439261     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2009161     Document Type: Article

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