Speech Enhancement

• Main Authors: Benesty, Jacob (Author), Makino, Shoji (Author), Chen, Jingdong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Acoustics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

We live in a noisy world! In all applications (telecommunications, hands-free communications, recording, human-machine interfaces, etc) that require at least one microphone, the signal of interest is usually contaminated by noise and reverberation. As a result, the microphone signal has to be "...

Table of Contents:

• Study of the Wiener Filter for Noise Reduction
• Statistical Methods for the Enhancement of Noisy Speech
• Single- and Multi-Microphone Spectral Amplitude Estimation Using a Super-Gaussian Speech Model
• From Volatility Modeling of Financial Time-Series to Stochastic Modeling and Enhancement of Speech Signals
• Single-Microphone Noise Suppression for 3G Handsets Based on Weighted Noise Estimation
• Signal Subspace Techniques for Speech Enhancement
• Speech Enhancement: Application of the Kalman Filter in the Estimate-Maximize (EM) Framework
• Speech Distortion Weighted Multichannel Wiener Filtering Techniques for Noise Reduction
• Adaptive Microphone Array Employing Spatial Quadratic Soft Constraints and Spectral Shaping
• Single-Microphone Blind Dereverberation
• Separation and Dereverberation of Speech Signals with Multiple Microphones
• Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation
• Subband Based Blind Source Separation
• Real-Time Blind Source Separation for Moving Speech Signals
• Separation of Speech by Computational Auditory Scene Analysis.