Determining Mixing Parameters From Multispeaker Data Using Speech-Specific Information

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1196-1207

  Yegnanarayana, B ^a   Swamy, R Kumara ^b   Sri Rama Murty, K ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b SIDDAGANGA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Excitation source; mixing parameters; multispeaker data; speaker localization; time delay estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020244     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2016230     Document Type: Article

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