Improving speech intelligibility in noise using environment-optimized algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2080-2090

  Kim, Gibak ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment optimized algorithms; Speech enhancement; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; BINARY DECISION; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; INPUT SIGNAL; MODEL PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZED ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; SPEECH QUALITY; TARGET SIGNALS; TIME FREQUENCY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLASSIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 77956547397     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2041116     Document Type: Article

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