STFT phase reconstruction in voiced speech for an improved single-channel speech enhancement

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1931-1940

  Krawczyk, Martin ^a   Gerkmann, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Noise reduction; Phase estimation; Signal reconstruction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE ENHANCEMENTS; AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; NOISY OBSERVATIONS; PHASE ESTIMATION; PHASE RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84921800494     PISSN: 23299290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2014.2354236     Document Type: Article

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