A two-stage beamforming approach for noise reduction and dereverberation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 945-958

  Habets, Emanuël A P ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamforming; dereverberation; Microphone arrays; Noise reduction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BEAMFORMERS; DEREVERBERATION; DESIRED SIGNAL; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; OPERATING POINTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REFERENCE SIGNALS; RESIDUAL NOISE; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; TWO-STAGE APPROACHES;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; REVERBERATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84873629740     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2239292     Document Type: Article

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