A new approach to compensate degeneration of speech intelligibility for elderly listeners: Development of a portable real time speech rate conversion system

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 285-293

  Nakamura, Akira ^a,b   Seiyama, Nobumasa ^b   Imai, Atsushi ^b   Takagi, Tohru ^b   Miyasaka, Eiichi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; RADIO BROADCASTING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

AUDIBILITY; ELDERLY LISTENERS; PITCH FREQUENCY; REAL TIME SPEECH RATE CONVERSION SYSTEM;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0030242061     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/11.536593     Document Type: Article

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