Why do speech-enhancement algorithms not improve speech intelligibility?

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4738-4741

  Kim, Gibak ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech distortion; Speech enhancement; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

HUMAN LISTENERS; INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS; LISTENING TESTS; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY IN NOISE; SPEECH QUALITY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 78049385885     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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