Joint dereverberation and residual echo suppression of speech signals in noisy environments

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1433-1451

  Habets, Emanuël A P ^a,b   Gannot, Sharon ^a   Cohen, Israel ^b   Sommen, Piet C W ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic echo cancellation (aec); Dereverberation; Residual echo suppression

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COUPLING; ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION (AEC); ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLER; ACOUSTIC ECHOES; BACKGROUND NOISE; BENEFICIAL USE; DEREVERBERATION; ECHO SIGNALS; HANDS-FREE; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; POSTFILTERS; RESIDUAL ECHO SUPPRESSION; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION TIME; SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH SIGNALS; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ECHO SUPPRESSION;

EID: 70350446793     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2002071     Document Type: Article

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