<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this paper the intelligibility of ideal binary-masked noisy signal is evaluated for different signal to noise ratio (SNR), mask error, masker types, distance between source and receiver, reverberation time and local criteria for forming the binary mask. The ideal binary mask is computed from time-frequency decompositions of target and masker signals by thresholding the local SNR within time-frequency units. The intelligibility of separated signal is measured using different objective measures computed in frequency and perceptual domain. The present study replicates and extends the findings which were already presented but mainly shows impact of room acoustic on the intelligibility performance of IBM technique.</p></abstract>

In this paper the intelligibility of ideal binary-masked noisy signal is evaluated for different signal to noise ratio (SNR), mask error, masker types, distance between source and receiver, reverberation time and local criteria for forming the binary mask. The ideal binary mask is computed from time-frequency decompositions of target and masker signals by thresholding the local SNR within time-frequency units. The intelligibility of separated signal is measured using different objective measures computed in frequency and perceptual domain. The present study replicates and extends the findings which were already presented but mainly shows impact of room acoustic on the intelligibility performance of IBM technique.

Intelligibility Assessment of Ideal Binary-Masked Noisy Speech with Acceptance of Room Acoustic

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute of Electronics and Photonics, Ilkovičova 3, 812 19 Bratislava

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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In this paper the intelligibility of ideal binary-masked noisy signal is evaluated for different signal to noise ratio (SNR), mask error, masker types,...

Intelligibility Assessment of Ideal Binary-Masked Noisy Speech with Acceptance of Room Acoustic

Publicado en línea: 31 ene 2015

Páginas: 325 - 332

Recibido: 18 feb 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2014-0054

© 2015 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology

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