Applied principles of clear and Lombard speech for automated intelligibility enhancement in noisy environments

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 549-558

  Skowronski, Mark D ^a   Harris, John G ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Clear speech; Energy redistribution; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; CLEAR SPEECH; ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33645998440     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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