Modulation enhancement of speech by a pre-processing algorithm for improving intelligibility in reverberant environments

Speech Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-113

  Kusumoto, Akiko ^a,b   Arai, Takayuki ^b   Kinoshita, Keisuke ^b   Hodoshima, Nao ^b   Vaughan, Nancy ^a  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Modulation spectrum; Modulation transfer function; Reverberation; Speech enhancement; Word intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MICROPHONES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REVERBERATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

MODULATION SPECTRUM; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; WORD INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 13544251369     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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