Masking speech with its time-reversed signal

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-190

  Arai, Takayuki ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sound masking; Speech masker; Speech privacy; Time reversed signal

Indexed keywords

DSP CHIP; MASKING SIGNALS; SPEECH MASKERS; SPEECH PRIVACY; SPEECH SIGNALS; TARGET SPEECH; TIME FRAME; TIME-REVERSED;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS;

EID: 77951188629     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.31.188     Document Type: Article

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