Analysis of beamformer directed single-channel noise reduction system for hearing aid applications

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 5728-5732

  Jensen, Jesper ^a,b   Pedersen, Michael Syskind ^a  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

multi microphone speech enhancement; noise reduction for hearing AIDS; Power spectral density estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROPHONES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MSE); MICROPHONE SPEECH; MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY ESTIMATIONS; SINGLE-CHANNEL NOISE REDUCTIONS;

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EID: 84946026041     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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