Speech enhancement based on the general transfer function GSC and postfiltering

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 561-571

  Gannot, Sharon ^a   Cohen, Israel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Generalized sidelobe canceller; Microphone arrays; Nonstationarity; Postfiltering; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER (GSC); MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NONSTATIONARITY; POSTFILTERING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH;

EID: 7544226792     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.834599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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