Multi-sensory speech enhancement using a clean speech prior

Details Multi-sensory speech enhancement using a clean speech prior Multi-sensory speech enhancement using a clean speech prior

2005-06-20

2008-03-18

Hudspeth, David (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C704S228000

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus determine a channel response for an alternative sensor using an alternative sensor signal, an air conduction microphone signal. The channel response and a prior probability distribution for clean speech values are then used to estimate a clean speech value.

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