An algorithm for intelligibility prediction of time-frequency weighted noisy speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2125-2136

  Taal, Cees H ^a   Hendriks, Richard C ^a   Heusdens, Richard ^a   Jensen, Jesper ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Noise reduction; objective measure; speech enhancement; speech intelligibility prediction

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GLOBAL STATISTICS; NOISY SPEECH; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SEGMENT LENGTHS; TIME FREQUENCY; TIME SEGMENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 79960916745     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2114881     Document Type: Article

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