A dual-microphone speech enhancement algorithm based on the coherence function

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 599-609

  Yousefian, Nima ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Coherence function; coherent noise; microphone array; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; COHERENCE FUNCTION; COHERENT NOISE; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; HEARING AID; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERFERING SOURCES; LISTENING TESTS; MICROPHONE ARRAY; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NOISE SIGNALS; NOISE SOURCE; NOISE STATISTICS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; QUALITY EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COHERENT LIGHT; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 83755174038     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2162406     Document Type: Article

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