Musical-noise-free speech enhancement based on optimized iterative spectral subtraction

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2080-2094

  Miyazaki, Ryoichi ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Inoue, Takayuki ^a   Takahashi, Yu ^b   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a   Kondo, Kazunobu ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YAMAHA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Higher order statistics; iterative spectral subtraction; musical noise free; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; FIXED POINTS; GENERATION PROCESS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGHER ORDER; INTERNAL PARAMETERS; MUSICAL NOISE; NOISE ATTENUATION; NOISE REDUCTION METHODS; NOISE SPECTRA; NON-LINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PARAMETER SETTING; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84862281020     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2196513     Document Type: Article

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