The importance of phase in speech enhancement

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-494

  Paliwal, Kuldip ^a   Wójcicki, Kamil ^a   Shannon, Benjamin ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis window; Analysis modification synthesis (AMS); Magnitude spectrum; Minimum mean square error (MMSE) short time spectral amplitude (STSA) estimator; MMSE PSC; Phase spectrum; Phase spectrum compensation (PSC); Short time Fourier analysis; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS WINDOWS; ANALYSIS-MODIFICATION-SYNTHESIS (AMS); MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (MMSE) SHORT-TIME SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE (STSA) ESTIMATOR; MMSE PSC; PHASE SPECTRUM; PHASE SPECTRUM COMPENSATION (PSC); SHORT-TIME FOURIER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR COMPENSATION; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952363352     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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