In mobile devices, perceived speech signal degrades significantly in the presence of background noise as it reaches directly at the listener's ears. There is a need to improve the intelligibility and quality of the received speech signal in noisy environments by incorporating speech enhancement algorithms. This paper focuses on speech enhancement method including auditory masking propertie...

In mobile devices, perceived speech signal degrades significantly in the presence of background noise as it reaches directly at the listener's ears. There is a need to improve the intelligibility and quality of the received speech signal in noisy environments by incorporating speech enhancement algorithms. This paper focuses on speech enhancement method including auditory masking propertie...

In mobile devices, perceived speech signal degrades significantly in the presence of background noise as it reaches directly at the listener's ears. There is a need to improve the intelligibility and quality of the received speech signal in noisy environments by incorporating speech enhancement algorithms. This paper focuses on speech enhancement method including auditory masking propertie...

A great number of rooms are dedicated to a voice communication between a singular speaker and a group of listeners. Those rooms could be as small as meeting room and classrooms or larger like auditoriums and theatres. There is a major demand for them to assure the highest possible speech intelligibility for all listeners in the room. Classrooms are an example of rooms where a very good speech i...

The aim of present study is to evaluate and compare speech intelligibility in hearing impaired children with cochlear implants (CI) and hearing aid (HA) users and children with normal hearing (NH). The sample consisted of 45 Persian-speaking children aged 3 to 5-years-old. They were divided into three groups, and each group had 15, children, children with CI and children using hearing aids in H...

In this study, we investigated whether the intelligibility-enhancing mode of speech production, known as “clear speech” produced by native and non-native talkers influenced speech intelligibility equally for native and non-native listeners. In a series of three experiments, we explored the effect of clear speech for various native and non-native talker and listener pairs. Combined, the results ...

The effect of masking due to fluctuating sources on speech intelligibility is a phenomenon difficult to predict. Intelligibility scores vary with the efficiency of the energetic masking while the linguistic content of the message and listener’s cognitive performances add to the general incertitude that peaks for the case of masking speech. The present contribution proposes a signal-based assess...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the long-term speech perception and speech intelligibility of congenitally and prelingually deaf children after cochlear implantation. It was a longitudinal study following 63 congenitally or prelingually deaf children up to 5 years after implantation. They each received a nucleus multichannel cochlear implant before they were 10 years old. METHODS Perce...

Speech intelligibility is an essential though complex construct for evaluating dysarthric speech. Various procedures can be used to measure speech intelligibility, most of which are based on subjective ratings assigned by experts. Since these and laborious, automatic recognition (ASR) has been proposed obtain objective metrics intelligibility. Although promising results have reported, ASR gener...