Signal-dependent constraints for perceptually motivated suppression of late reverberation

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 959-965

  Tsilfidis, Alexandros ^a   Mourjopoulos, John ^a  

^a Wire Communications Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

Auditory masking; Dereverberation; Spectral subtraction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MASKING; DEREVERBERATION; SIGNAL TRANSIENT; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SUPPRESSION ALGORITHM;

REVERBERATION;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 70350738219     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.09.020     Document Type: Article

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