Speech dereverberation based on variance-normalized delayed linear prediction

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1717-1731

  Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Yoshioka, Takuya ^a   Kinoshita, Keisuke ^a   Miyoshi, Masato ^b   Juang, Biing Hwang ^c  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; inverse filtering; multichannel linear prediction; speech enhancement; statistical model based signal processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DEREVERBERATION; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; GENERATIVE MODEL; INVERSE FILTERING; INVERSE SYSTEM; LINEAR PREDICTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SOURCE PROCESS; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SQUARED PREDICTION ERRORS; STATISTICAL MODELS; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAIN; TIME-VARYING VARIANCE;

REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77955698459     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2052251     Document Type: Article

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