Speech enhancement with inventory style speech resynthesis

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1243-1257

  Xiao, X ^a   Nickel, R M ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic tunnelling; hidden Markov models (HMMs); inventory style speech synthesis; nonstationary noise; sinusoidal speech modeling; speaker dependent denoising; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRAINING AIRCRAFT;

DE-NOISING; DENOISING APPROACH; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); NOISE ENVIRONMENTS; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; SPEECH MODELING; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

EID: 77955804274     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2031793     Document Type: Article

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