Speech dereverberation based on maximum-likelihood estimation with time-varying gaussian source model

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1512-1527

  Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Juang, Biing Hwang ^b   Yoshioka, Takuya ^a   Kinoshita, Keisuke ^a   Delcroix, Marc ^a   Miyoshi, Masato ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind signal processing; Dereverberation; Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; Multichannel linear prediction; Speech; Time varying gaussian source model (TVGSM)

Indexed keywords

BLIND SIGNAL PROCESSING; DEREVERBERATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATION; MULTICHANNEL LINEAR PREDICTION; TIME-VARYING GAUSSIAN SOURCE MODEL (TVGSM);

ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350458846     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2004306     Document Type: Article

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