Tang, Y and Cooke, M 2018, 'Learning static spectral weightings for speech intelligibility enhancement in noise' , Computer Speech & Language, 49 , pp. 1-16.
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Abstract
Near-end speech enhancement works by modifying speech prior to presentation in a noisy environment, typically operating under a constraint of limited or no increase in speech level. One issue is the extent to which near-end enhancement techniques require detailed estimates of the masking environment to function effectively. The current study investigated speech modification strategies based on reallocating energy statically across the spectrum using masker-specific spectral weightings. Weighting patterns were learned offline by maximising a glimpse-based objective intelligibility metric. Keyword scores in sentences in the presence of stationary and fluctuating maskers increased, in some cases by very substantial amounts, following the application of masker- and SNR-specific spectral weighting. A second experiment using generic masker-independent spectral weightings that boosted all frequencies above 1 kHz also led to significant gains in most conditions. These findings indicate that energy-neutral spectral weighting is a highly-effective near-end speech enhancement approach that places minimal demands on detailed masker estimation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Computer Speech & Language |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0885-2308 |
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| Funders: | European Commission |
| Depositing User: | Y Tang |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2017 08:39 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 22:46 |
| URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/44654 |
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