Investigating Noise Interference on Speech Towards Applying the Lombard Effect Automatically

Grazina Korvel; Krzysztof Kąkol; Povilas Treigys; Bożena Kostek

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16564-1_38

Investigating Noise Interference on Speech Towards Applying the Lombard Effect Automatically

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The aim of this study is two-fold. First, we perform a series of experiments to examine the interference of different noises on speech processing. For that purpose, we concentrate on the Lombard effect, an involuntary tendency to raise speech level in the presence of background noise. Then, we apply this knowledge to detecting speech with the Lombard effect. This is for preparing a dataset for training a machine learning-based system for automatic speech conversion, mimicking a human way to make speech more intelligible in the presence of noise, i.e., to create Lombard speech. Several spectral descriptors are analyzed in the context of Lombard speech and various types of noise. In conclusion, pub-like and babble noises are most similar when comparing Spectral Entropy, Spectral RollOff, and Spectral Brightness. The larger values of these spectral descriptors, the more the speech-in-noise signal is degraded. To quantify the effect of noise on speech, containing the Lombard effect, an average formant track error is calculated as an objective image quality metric. For image quality assessment Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index is employed.

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Grazina Korvel
Krzysztof Kąkol mgr inż.
Povilas Treigys dr
Bożena Kostek prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Conference activity
Type:: publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2022
Bibliographic description:: Korvel G., Kąkol K., Treigys P., Kostek B.: Investigating Noise Interference on Speech Towards Applying the Lombard Effect Automatically// / : , 2022,
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/978-3-031-16564-1_38
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