DFt-domain based single-microphone noise reduction for speech enhancement: A survey of the state of the art

Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-80

  Hendriks, Richard C ^a   Gerkmann, Timo ^b   Jensen, Jesper ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

noise reduction; single microphone; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SURVEYS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; PROCESSING DEVICE; SINGLE-CHANNEL NOISE REDUCTIONS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM; STATE OF THE ART; USER INTERVENTION; VOICE-CONTROLLED;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84874152893     PISSN: 1932121X     EISSN: 19321678     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2200/S00473ED1V01Y201301SAP011     Document Type: Article

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