A CASA-based system for long-term SNR estimation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2518-2527

  Narayanan, Arun ^a   Wang, Deliang ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband SNR; Computational auditory scene analysis (CASA); ideal binary mask (IBM); signal to noise ratio (SNR); subband SNR

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND SNR; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; IDEAL BINARY MASK; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SUBBANDS;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84865682906     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2205242     Document Type: Article

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