A dual-microphone algorithm that can cope with competing-talker scenarios

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-155

  Yousefian, Nima ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence function; dual microphone; signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS; COHERENCE FUNCTION; DIRECTIONAL ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; DUAL MICROPHONES; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84869416797     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2215594     Document Type: Article

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