Joint time-frequency segmentation algorithm for transient speech decomposition and speech enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1417-1428

  Tantibundhit, Charturong ^a   Pernkopf, Franz ^b   Kubin, Gernot ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Joint timefrequency (TF) segmentation; Speech enhancement; Speech intelligibility; Transient component; Wavelet packet transform

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; HUMAN LISTENERS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPEECH SIGNALS; TIME FREQUENCY; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS; TRANSIENT COMPONENT; TRANSIENT COMPONENTS; WAVELET PACKET COEFFICIENT; WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORMS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 77955724545     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2035037     Document Type: Article

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