Noise correlation matrix estimation for multi-microphone speech enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 223-233

  Hendriks, Richard C ^a   Gerkmann, Timo ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Multi microphone; noise correlation matrix; noise reduction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPETING ALGORITHMS; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELER; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; NOISE CORRELATION MATRIXES; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 81155154446     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2159711     Document Type: Article

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