A Combined Statistical and Machine Learning Approach For Single Channel Speech Enhancement

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2015. Major: Electrical Engineering. Advisor: Zhi-Quan Luo. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 116 pages.

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