Presentation 2015-09-04
Importance of Spectral Envelope in Bone-Conducted Speech
Shunsuke Handa, Tetsuya Shimamura, Hisanori Makinae,
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Abstract(in English) In highly noise environments, it is very difficult to make speech communication smooth. Thereby, the bone-conducted speech is focused on. However, the intelligibility of the bone-conducted speech relative to the air-conducted speech is low and the bone-conducted speech is sometimes difficult. It was assumed that the causes of reduction in intelligibility of the bone-conducted speech are attenuation of the high frequency part more than 1kHz and difference of amplitude between each phoneme. In this paper, however, we focus on spectral envelope and discuss its effect on intelligibility in the bone-conducted speech through simulation experiments to utilize cepstrum. In addition, we suggest that the fundamental frequencies are common between the air-conducted and bone-conducted speech.
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Keyword(in English) bone-conducted speech / intelligibility / spectral envelope / cepstrum / fundamental frequency
Paper # SIS2015-27
Date of Issue 2015-08-27 (SIS)

Conference Information
Committee SIS / IPSJ-AVM
Conference Date 2015/9/3(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kansai Univ.
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Smart Multimedia Systems, etc.
Chair Mitsuji Muneyasu(Kansai Univ.) / Wataru Kameyama(Waseda Univ.)
Vice Chair Hirokazu Tanaka(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Takayuki Nakachi(NTT)
Secretary Hirokazu Tanaka(Nagoya City Univ.) / Takayuki Nakachi(Toshiba) / (Waseda Univ.)
Assistant Hiroyuki Tsuji(Kanagawa Inst. of Tech.) / Hakaru Tamukoh(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Smart Info-Media System / Special Interest Group on Audio Visual and Multimedia Information Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Importance of Spectral Envelope in Bone-Conducted Speech
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) bone-conducted speech
Keyword(2) intelligibility
Keyword(3) spectral envelope
Keyword(4) cepstrum
Keyword(5) fundamental frequency
1st Author's Name Shunsuke Handa
1st Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Tetsuya Shimamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hisanori Makinae
3rd Author's Affiliation National Research Institute of Police Science(NRIPS)
Date 2015-09-04
Paper # SIS2015-27
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) SIS-208
Page pp.pp.75-80(SIS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-08-27 (SIS)