A two-channel reverberation suppression scheme based on blind signal separation and Wiener filtering

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-116

  Schwarz, Andreas ^a   Reindl, Klaus ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

blind source separation; Dereverberation; source extraction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION; BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION; BLOCKING MATRIX; CLEAN SPEECH; DEREVERBERATION; LOW SNR; RECOGNITION RATES; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SOURCE EXTRACTION; TARGET SIGNALS; TIME LAG; TWO MICROPHONES; TWO-CHANNEL; WIENER FILTERING; WIENER FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84867615229     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6287830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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