Towards generalizing classification based speech separation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 168-177

  Han, Kun ^a   Wang, Deliang ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; rethresholding; speech separation; support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

DISTRIBUTION FITTING; GENERALIZATION; IDEAL BINARY MASK (IBM); RETHRESHOLDING; SPEECH SEPARATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84869416544     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2215596     Document Type: Article

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