Chapter 35

Enhancement

Mike Brookes and Nikolay D. Gaubitch,    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London, UK,    mike.brookes@imperial.ac.uk

Abstract

Speech telecommunication involves capturing a speech signal from a talker and transmitting it to a listener. The speech signal is often degraded at various stages in the transmission chain and has to be processed in order to improve its perceived quality or intelligibility before it is presented to a target listener. This chapter begins by describing the different types of degradation commonly encountered in the transmission chain and then presents a comprehensive overview of existing speech enhancement algorithms. The algorithms are categorized ...

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