The performance of speech communication channels featuring long delay times is usually subjectively experienced as lower than similar channels without delay. Yet most conventional speech intelligibility and speech quality tests are not sensitive to the effects of delay. Moreover, these conventional test do not take the effects of human compensating strategies into account, which help cope with ...

Unlike multimedia streaming applications that require a smooth playback at the client, application of network speech recognition (NSR) that recognizes speech signal in a sentence-by-sentence manner might tolerate an acceptable delay. The acceptable delay is a user-defined time in which the entire sentence data should be received by the server. We proposed a calculation method to investigate the...

A time delay estimation method based on wavelet transform and speech envelope is proposed for distributed microphone arrays. This method first extracts the speech envelopes of the signals processed with multi-level discrete wavelet transform, and then makes use of the speech envelopes to estimate a coarse time delay. Finally it searches for the accurate time delay near the coarse time delay by ...

One of the key issues in practical speech recognition is to achieve robust gender identification. Most conventional gender identification approaches use relevant features derived from the magnitude spectrum. In this paper, we propose a novel gender identification method using a group delay function (GDF). Based on the statistical analysis of the GDF, it is found that the GDF is an effective fea...

This paper demonstrates the robustness of group-delay based features for speech processing. An analysis of group delay functions is presented which show that these features retain formant structure even in noise. Furthermore, a speaker verification task performed on the NIST 2003 database show lesser error rates, when compared with the traditional MFCC features. We also mention about using feat...

Including disfluencies in synthetic speech is being explored as a way of making synthetic speech sound more natural and conversational. How to measure whether the resulting speech is actually more natural, however, is not straightforward. Conventional approaches to synthetic speech evaluation fall short as a listener is either primed to prefer stimuli with filled pauses or, when they aren’t pri...

The ability of speech is influenced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. If the two factors do not support development in child, then will be late, which called delay. delay addressed immediately, impact continue until child an adult. Therefore, interactive book design has a purpose as media stimulation that can used children parents. This research raise topics about creation application visuals...