Speech-model based accurate blind reverberation time estimation using an LPC filter

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1884-1893

  Keshavarz, Abbas ^a   Mosayyebpour, Saeed ^b   Biguesh, Mehrzad ^a   Gulliver, T Aaron ^b   Esmaeili, Morteza ^a,c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

linear predictive (LP) residual; Linear predictive coding (LPC) filter; maximum likelihood (ML) estimator; reverberation time; unbiased autocorrelation function

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; LINEAR PREDICTIVE (LP) RESIDUAL; LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATOR; REVERBERATION TIME;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84860657423     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2191283     Document Type: Article

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