A forced spectral diversity algorithm for speech dereverberation in the presence of near-common zeros

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 888-889

  Lin, Xiang ^a   Khong, Andy W H ^c   Naylor, Patrick A ^b  

^a Credit Suisse group   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blind speech dereverberation; near common zeros (NCZs); spectral diversity

Indexed keywords

BLIND IDENTIFICATIONS; BLIND SPEECH; CHANNEL DIVERSITY; COMMON ZEROS; DEREVERBERATION; NEAR-COMMON ZEROS (NCZS); SIMO SYSTEM; SINGLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL DIVERSITY; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION; TWO-CHANNEL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTICS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84856278998     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2168208     Document Type: Article

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