Single-microphone early and late reverberation suppression in noisy speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 322-335

  Mosayyebpour, Saeed ^a   Esmaeili, Morteza ^a,b   Gulliver, T Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Early reverberation; inverse filtering; late reverberation; musical noise; single microphone; spectral subtraction

Indexed keywords

BABBLE NOISE; BACKGROUND NOISE; FILTER LENGTH; GAUSSIANS; INVERSE FILTERING; INVERSE FILTERS; MUSICAL NOISE; NOISY SPEECH; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERATION EFFECTS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SINGLE-MICROPHONE; SPECTRAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION METHODS; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; TWO-STAGE METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROPHONES;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84871359400     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2224341     Document Type: Article

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