Real-time blind source separation system with applications to distant speech recognition

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-184

  Ferreira, Alberto E A ^a   Alarcão, Diogo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; Distant speech recognition; DUET

Indexed keywords

AUDIO STREAMING; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CROSS CORRELATIONS; DISTANT SPEECH RECOGNITION; DUET; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; REAL-TIME AUDIO STREAMING; SOURCE-SEPARATION SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL LEAKAGE; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 84977275397     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: 1872910X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2016.06.024     Document Type: Article

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