A stereophonic acoustic signal extraction scheme for noisy and reverberant environments

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 726-745

  Reindl, Klaus ^a   Zheng, Yuanhang ^a   Schwarz, Andreas ^a   Meier, Stefan ^a   Maas, Roland ^a   Sehr, Armin ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blind source extraction; PASCAL CHiME challenge; Robust automatic speech recognition; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BEAMFORMING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; EXTRACTION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BLIND SOURCE EXTRACTION; DIFFUSE NOISE FIELDS; INTERFERENCE COMPONENTS; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; PASCAL CHIME CHALLENGE; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84893339216     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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