Estimators of the Magnitude-Squared Spectrum and Methods for Incorporating SNR Uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1123-1137

  Lu, Yang ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^b  

^a Cirrus Logic   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary mask; maximum a posterior (MAP) estimators; minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimators; soft mask; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008013225     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2082531     Document Type: Article

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