Particle filter enhancement of speech spectral amplitudes

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2155-2167

  Laska, Brady N M ^a   Bolić, Miodrag ^b   Goubran, Rafik A ^c  

^a RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Noise reduction; Particle filters; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE PROCESS; CLEAN SPEECH; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DISTRIBUTED EXCITATION; FOURIER; INTER-FRAME DEPENDENCY; INTERACTING MULTIPLE MODEL; MULTIPLE MODELS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PARTICLE FILTER; PARTICLE SAMPLING; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE VARIANTS; SAMPLING EFFICIENCY; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS; WIDEBAND SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TARGET TRACKING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77956528150     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2042127     Document Type: Article

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