Cepstral statistics normalization techniques have been shown to be very successful at improving the noise robustness of speech features. This paper proposes a hybrid-based scheme to achieve a more accurate estimate of the statistical information of features in these techniques. By properly integrating codebook and utterance knowledge, the resulting hybrid-based approach significantly outperforms conventional utterance-based, segmentbased and codebook-based approaches in noisy environments. For the Aurora-2 clean-condition training task, the proposed hybrid codebook/segment-based histogram equalization (CS-HEQ) achieves an average recognition accuracy of 90.66%, which is better than utterance-based HEQ (87.62%), segment-based HEQ (85.92%) and codebook-based HEQ (85.29%). Furthermore, the high-performance CS-HEQ can be implemented with a short delay and can thus be applied in real-time online systems.