Room acoustic parameters are key information for dereverberation or speech recognition. Usually, when one needs to assess the level of reverberation, only the reverberation time RT60 or a direct to reverberant sounds index Dτ is estimated. Yet, methods which blindly estimate the reverberation time from reverberant recorded speech do not always differentiate the RT60 from the Dτ to evaluate the ...

PURPOSE To study the perceptual consequences of changes in parameters of vocoded speech in various reverberation conditions. METHOD The 3 controlled variables were number of vocoder bands, instantaneous frequency change rate, and reverberation conditions. The effects were quantified in terms of (a) nonsense words' recognition scores for young normal-hearing listeners, (b) ease of listening ba...

A blind method for suppressing late reverberation from speech and audio signals is presented. The proposed technique operates both on the spectral and on the sub-band domains employing a single input channel. At first, a preliminary rough clean signal estimation is required and for this, any standard technique may be applied; however here the estimate is obtained through spectral subtraction. T...

The purpose of this experiment was to investigate whether classroom reverberation influences second-language (L2) listening comprehension. Moreover, we investigated whether individual differences in baseline L2 proficiency and in working memory capacity (WMC) modulate the effect of reverberation time on L2 listening comprehension. The results showed that L2 listening comprehension decreased as ...

Designing a proper acoustical environment--indispensable to speech recognition--in long enclosures is difficult. Although there is some literature on the acoustical conditions in underground stations, there is still little information about methods that make estimation of correct reverberation conditions possible. This paper discusses the assessment of the reverberation conditions of undergroun...

Time reversal mirrors have been applied to focus energy at probe source locations and point scatterers in inhomogeneous media. In this paper, we investigate the application of a time reversal mirror to rough interface reverberation processing in a waveguide. The method is based on the decomposition of the time reversal operator which is computed from the transfer matrix measured on a source-rec...

Vocal effort is a physiological magnitude that accounts for the changes in voice production that occur as vocal loading, which is the stress inflicted on the vocal folds when speaking for long periods, increases. It has been quantified in terms of Sound Pressure Level (SPL). In previous research, it has been shown that prolonged vocal effort can lead to vocal fatigue. An experiment was conducte...

The significant characteristics of the electromagnetic environment in an ideal reverberation chamber are uniformity, isotropy and random polarization. Stirrer performance in a reverberation chamber is crucial to these characteristics. In this paper, based on the statistical theory, the uncertainty due to the number of independent samples is given. The key mechanism that causes the fields in a r...

We describe a binaural auditory model for speech recognition, which is robust in the presence of reverberation and spatially separated noise intrusions. The principle underlying the model is to identify time-frequency regions which constitute reliable evidence of the speech signal. This is achieved both by determining the spatial location of the speech source, and by applying a simple model of ...