Late reverberant spectral variance estimation based on a statistical model

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 770-773

  Habets, Emanuël A P ^a,b   Gannot, Sharon ^b   Cohen, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Reverberation suppression; Speech enhancement; Statistical room acoustics

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CRITICAL DISTANCE; ENERGY CONTRIBUTION; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL ROOM ACOUSTICS; TWO-COMPONENT; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 77955697587     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2009.2024791     Document Type: Article

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