Impact of SNR and gain-function over- and under-estimation on speech intelligibility

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 272-281

  Chen, Fei ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

SNR estimation; Speech enhancement; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

GAIN ESTIMATION; GAIN FUNCTION; MUSICAL NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; OVER-ESTIMATION; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SNR ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; SPEECH QUALITY; UPPER BOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 80055099254     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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