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2018-03-20 09:00
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Optimization of Outdoor Loudspeaker Level Based on U50 for Disaster Prevention Administrative Radio Ryouichi Nishimura (NICT), Shuichi Sakamoto (Tohoku Univ.), Yoshifumi Chisaki (Chiba Inst. of Tech.), Zhenglie Cui (Tohoku Univ.) EA2017-146 SIP2017-155 SP2017-129 |
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Announcement through outdoor loudspeakers of disaster prevention administrative radio is important not only for early warning but also as the final channel to convey information to evacuating people when the public wireless network is down due to earthquake or flood of access request. Loudspeakers are placed at scattered points in order to cover a wide area but it causes a so-called long-path echo problem by which speech becomes difficult to catch because a single speech arrives multiple times with different delays. An attempt to solve this problem was to controll the speed of utterance appropriately. Another is to adjust the length of silent portions. These research works focused on the temporal aspect of speech. In contrast, we try to ease the problem by adjusting output levels of loudspeakers, employing U50. It was proposed as an index of speech intelligibility in a reverberant environment and defined as a ratio of the energy of early and late sound components. In the long-path echo problem, the early sound is not always the primary component for understanding the speech. Therefore, we newly proposed probabilistic U50 and conducted global optimization with respect to it. As a result, improvement by 6.5 dB was achieved, compared with the case where the speech is presented at the equal level at all loudspeakers. |
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Disaster prevention administrative radio / Outdoor loudspeaker / Probabilistic U50 / EM algorithm / Speech intelligibility / / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 515, EA2017-146, pp. 245-250, March 2018. |
Paper # |
EA2017-146 |
Date of Issue |
2018-03-12 (EA, SIP, SP) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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Conference Information |
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SIP EA SP MI |
Conference Date |
2018-03-19 - 2018-03-20 |
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Speech, Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Related Topics [SIP, EA, SP]/ Medical Image Engineering, Analysis, Recognition, etc. [MI] |
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2018-03-SIP-EA-SP-MI |
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Optimization of Outdoor Loudspeaker Level Based on U50 for Disaster Prevention Administrative Radio |
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Disaster prevention administrative radio |
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Outdoor loudspeaker |
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Probabilistic U50 |
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EM algorithm |
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Speech intelligibility |
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1st Author's Name |
Ryouichi Nishimura |
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National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) |
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Shuichi Sakamoto |
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Tohoku University (Tohoku Univ.) |
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Yoshifumi Chisaki |
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Chiba Institute of Technology (Chiba Inst. of Tech.) |
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Zhenglie Cui |
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Tohoku University (Tohoku Univ.) |
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Date Time |
2018-03-20 09:00:00 |
Presentation Time |
90 minutes |
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EA |
Paper # |
EA2017-146, SIP2017-155, SP2017-129 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.117 |
Number (no) |
no.515(EA), no.516(SIP), no.517(SP) |
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pp.245-250 |
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6 |
Date of Issue |
2018-03-12 (EA, SIP, SP) |
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