Theoretical Analysis of Musical Noise in Generalized Spectral Subtraction Based on Higher Order Statistics

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1770-1779

  Inoue, Takayuki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a   Takahashi, Yu ^b   Kondo, Kazunobu ^c  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YAMAHA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Generalized spectral subtraction; higher order statistics; musical noise; speech enhancement; Wiener filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008047985     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2098871     Document Type: Article

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