Speech enhancement using hidden Markov models in Mel-frequency domain

Speech Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 205-220

  Veisi, Hadi ^a   Sameti, Hossein ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

HMM based speech enhancement; Mel frequency; Parallel cepstral and spectral (PCS)

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; CEPSTRAL; CLEAN SPEECH; CONCURRENT MODELING; ENHANCEMENT FRAMEWORK; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; MEL-FREQUENCY; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; NOISE TYPES; NOISY SIGNALS; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; REFERENCE METHOD; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SPECTRUM ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ESTIMATORS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHODS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84870253774     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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