| Presentation | 2017-12-21 [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, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | 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. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Speech intelligibility / Lombard speech / Statistical Waveform Conversion |
| Paper # | SP2017-57 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-12-14 (SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | NLC / IPSJ-NL / SP / IPSJ-SLP |
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| Conference Date | 2017/12/20(3days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Waseda Univ. Green Computing Systems Research Organization |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | The 4th Natural Language Processing Symposium & The 19th Spoken Language Symposium |
| Chair | Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM) / Kentaro Inui(Tohoku Univ.) / Yoichi Yamashita(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Nobuaki Minematsu(Univ. Tokyo) |
| Vice Chair | Takeshi Sakaki(Hottolink) / Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / / Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.) |
| Secretary | Takeshi Sakaki(Ryukoku Univ.) / Kazutaka Shimada(NTT) / (Osaka Univ.) / Hiroki Mori(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / (Mixi Co. Ltd.) |
| Assistant | Mitsuo Yoshida(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / Takeshi Kobayakawa(NICT) / / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Satoshi Kobashikawa(NTT) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Natural Language / Technical Committee on Speech / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] An Evaluation of Speech Waveform Modification Methods towards Improvement of Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Environment |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Speech intelligibility |
| Keyword(2) | Lombard speech |
| Keyword(3) | Statistical Waveform Conversion |
| 1st Author's Name | Tomohiro Takeyama |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kazuhiro Kobayashi |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Tomoki Toda |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Kazuya Takeda |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.) |
| Date | 2017-12-21 |
| Paper # | SP2017-57 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.117 |
| Number (no) | SP-368 |
| Page | pp.pp.11-16(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-12-14 (SP) |