Speech and Audio Processing in Adverse Environments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hänsler, Eberhard (Editor), Schmidt, Gerhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Acoustics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

The book reflects the state of the art in important areas of speech and audio signal processing. It presents topics which are missed so far and most recent findings in the field. Leading international experts report on their field of work and their new results. Considerable amount of space is covere...

Table of Contents:

• Speech Enhancement
• Low Delay Filter-Banks for Speech and Audio Processing
• A Pre-Filter for Hands-Free Car Phone Noise Reduction: Suppression of Harmonic Engine Noise Components
• Model-Based Speech Enhancement
• Bandwidth Extension of Telephony Speech
• Dereverberation and Residual Echo Suppression in Noisy Environments
• Low Distortion Noise Cancellers – Revival of a Classical Technique
• Echo Cancellation
• Nonlinear Echo Cancellation Based on Spectral Shaping
• Signal and System Quality Evaluation
• Telephone-Speech Quality
• Evaluation of Hands-free Terminals
• Multi-Channel Processing
• Correlation-Based TDOA-Estimation for Multiple Sources in Reverberant Environments
• Microphone Calibration for Multi-Channel Signal Processing
• Convolutive Blind Source Separation for Noisy Mixtures
• Binaural Speech Segregation
• Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Inverse Filtering in the Wave Domain
• Selected Applications
• Virtual Hearing
• Dynamic Sound Control Algorithms in Automobiles
• Towards Robust Distant-Talking Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments.