Two-stage binaural speech enhancement with Wiener filter for high-quality speech communication

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 677-689

  Li, Junfeng ^a   Sakamoto, Shuichi ^b   Hongo, Satoshi ^c   Akagi, Masato ^a   Suzuki, Yôiti ^b  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binaural cue preservation; Binaural masking level difference; Equalization cancellation model; Sound localization; Two stage binaural speech enhancement (TS BASE)

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL CUE PRESERVATION; BINAURAL MASKING-LEVEL DIFFERENCES; EQUALIZATION-CANCELLATION MODEL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TWO STAGE;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AUDITION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79953663205     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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