Analysis of the decision-directed SNR estimator for speech enhancement with respect to low-SNR and transient conditions

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 277-289

  Breithaupt, Colin ^a   Martin, Rainer ^b  

^a Hsspatent   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Musical noise; single channel noise reduction; spectral estimation; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

DECISION-DIRECTED; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LOW SNR; MUSICAL NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM; NOISE REDUCTIONS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SINGLE-CHANNEL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; SNR ESTIMATION; SNR ESTIMATORS; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 78049256931     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2047681     Document Type: Article

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