The effect of a voice activity detector on the speech enhancement performance of the binaural multichannel wiener filter

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Catic, Jasmina ^a   Dau, Torsten ^a   Buchholz, Jörg M ^a   Gran, Fredrik ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GN ReSound Group   (Denmark)

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EID: 79251535592     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/840294     Document Type: Article

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