Two-microphone separation of speech mixtures based on interclass variance maximization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1661-1672

  Cobos, Maximo ^a   Lopez, Jose J ^a  

^a ITEAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; REALISTIC SCENARIO; SOUND SOURCE; SPARSE METHODS; SPEECH SEPARATION; TIME FREQUENCY; TIME-FREQUENCY POINTS; VARIANCE MAXIMIZATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950410617     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3294713     Document Type: Article

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