Spectral Enhancement Methods

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 873-902

  Cohen, Israel ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Babble Noise; Musical Noise; Speech Enhancement; Speech Signal; Voice Activity Detector

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075926376     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_44     Document Type: Chapter

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