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2017-12-21 12:50
[Poster Presentation]
An Evaluation of Speech Waveform Modification Methods towards Improvement of Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Environment Tomohiro Takeyama, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya Univ.) SP2017-57 |
Abstract |
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In this research, in order to improve speech intelligibility for a listener under the noisy environment, we propose a technique to modify source speech based on a speech processing.
To improve the speech intelligibility, spectral shaping and dynamic range compression (SSDRC) has been proposed.
Although this technique makes it possible to significantly improve the speech intelligibility of the speech in the noisy environment, various problems such as low flexibility of the spectral control and causing bad effect of voice timbre still remains.
In this research, we focus on the lombard speech, has higher speech intelligibility compared to normal speech.
We propose a technique to convert the normal speech into the lombard speech based on voice conversion based on direct waveform modification.
Subjective experimental evaluation demonstrated that the proposed method is superior to the conventional method in speaker similarity, though the proposed method is inferior to the conventional method in terms of the speech quality and speech intelligibility. |
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Speech intelligibility / Lombard speech / Statistical Waveform Conversion / / / / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 368, SP2017-57, pp. 11-16, Dec. 2017. |
Paper # |
SP2017-57 |
Date of Issue |
2017-12-14 (SP) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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Notes on Review |
This article is a technical report without peer review, and its polished version will be published elsewhere. |
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Conference Information |
Committee |
NLC IPSJ-NL SP IPSJ-SLP |
Conference Date |
2017-12-20 - 2017-12-22 |
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Waseda Univ. Green Computing Systems Research Organization |
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The 4th Natural Language Processing Symposium & The 19th Spoken Language Symposium |
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2017-12-NLC-NL-SP-SLP |
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An Evaluation of Speech Waveform Modification Methods towards Improvement of Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Environment |
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Speech intelligibility |
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Lombard speech |
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Statistical Waveform Conversion |
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Tomohiro Takeyama |
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Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.) |
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Kazuhiro Kobayashi |
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Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.) |
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Tomoki Toda |
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Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.) |
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Kazuya Takeda |
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Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.) |
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Date Time |
2017-12-21 12:50:00 |
Presentation Time |
90 minutes |
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SP |
Paper # |
SP2017-57 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.117 |
Number (no) |
no.368 |
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pp.11-16 |
#Pages |
6 |
Date of Issue |
2017-12-14 (SP) |
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