Semi-blind suppression of internal noise for hands-free robot spoken dialog system

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 658-663

  Even, Jani ^a   Sawada, Hiroshi ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a   Takatani, Tomoya ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION; DIFFUSE BACKGROUND; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HANDS-FREE; INTERNAL NOISE; MULTI-CHANNEL; POSTFILTERS; SEMI-BLIND; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 76249087625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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