Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen

Demonte, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5810-2737, Tang, Y, Hughes, RJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8916-1227, Cox, TJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4075-7564, Fazenda, BM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3912-0582 and Shirley, BG ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9634-4489 2018, Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen , in: 144th International Pro Audio Convention (AES Milan 2018), 23-26 May 2018, Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

Can externalizing dialogue when in the presence of stereo background noise improve speech intelligibility? This has been investigated for audio over headphones using head-tracking in order to explore potential future developments for small-screen devices. A quantitative listening experiment tasked participants with identifying target words in spoken sentences played in the presence of background noise via headphones. Sixteen different combinations of three independent variables were tested: speech and noise locations (internalized/externalized), video (on/off), and masking noise (stationary/fluctuating noise). The results revealed that the best improvements to speech intelligibility were generated by both the video-on condition and externalizing speech at the screen while retaining masking noise in the stereo mix.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Schools:	Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Publisher:	Audio Engineering Society (AES)
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Funders:	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), BBC
Depositing User:	USIR Admin
Date Deposited:	30 May 2018 12:48
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 23:18
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/47081

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