Speech Dereverberation

Christine Evers; Postdoctoral researcher, University of Edinburgh

11th August, 2010 at 1.00 pm - Sanderson Room

Joint UoE/HWU videoconference seminar

Reverberation is a degrading effect observed when speech is radiated in enclosed environments. It causes unnaturalness in the sound quality and can also reduce intelligibility. This tutorial will briefly review room acoustics in order to explain the causes and significance of reverberation. It will then review current and emerging signal processing techniques for dereverberation from a blind source estimation perspective.