A hybrid approach to electrolaryngeal speech enhancement based on noise reduction and statistical excitation generation

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E97-D, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1429-1437

  Tanaka, Kou ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Neubig, Graham ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrolaryngeal speech; Hybrid approach; Speaking aid; Spectral subtraction; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORECASTING; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ELECTROLARYNGEAL SPEECH; HYBRID APPROACH; SPEAKING-AID; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84901764355     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1429     Document Type: Article

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