An efficient individual gating method is described and tested. Compared to other approaches it does not solely calculate distances between the predicted and the actual measurement but checks for overlapping frames cen...
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The Wiener filter approach to noise suppression is well known both theoretically and practically. This paper explains the idea of extending this filtering approach to shape the residual noise of the output signal. Mot...
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Parkinson's Disease (PD) is one of the most frequent neurodegenerative diseases worldwide. Besides motor disorders, patients affected by this disease mostly suffer from a speech disorder named dysarthria. It is tr...
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In this contribution a proof-of-concept of a real-time cognitive sonar system is shown and tested in simulations. In the field of radar applications the principle of a cognitive system has been intensively studied ove...
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In this paper, we present a comparative overview of 9 studies on perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech. Different subjective assessment techniques have been used to evaluate the text-to-speech (TTS) stimul...
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In this contribution a generalized method for spectral refinement is presented which is applied as a post-processing stage after a conventional frequency analysis of speech signals. The principle idea of the generaliz...
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In this contribution a generalized method for spectral refinement is presented which is applied as a post-processing stage after a conventional frequency analysis of speech signals. The principle idea of the generalized spectral refinement (GSR) method is to refine each subband signal after a frequency decomposition individually and to compute additional frequency supporting points in between using a linear combination of the current as well as preceding and successive short-term spectra. For its efficient implementation a simplification of the GSR method is derived - it can be shown that the refinement can easily be implemented using short FIR-filters in each subband. This results in a very low computational complexity. The proposed method has been applied as a pre-processing stage for fundamental frequency estimation as well as for echo cancellation. Evaluations have shown that pitch frequency estimation methods can significantly be improved for all SNR considered when employing GSR method. Echo cancellation experiments confirm that GSR can enhance the performance in terms of steady-state convergence.
Ultrasound measurements are a widely used instrument in clinical practice. For later traceability of the images, the position (and orientation) of the ultrasound probe must be recorded during the measurement. Until no...
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When firefighters wear full-face masks with so-called self-contained breathing apparatus for ensuring clean air supply, the speech is strongly attenuated due to the characteristics of the masks. For this reason commun...
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The communication situation inside a passenger compartment can be impaired due to a high background noise at higher ve-locities. An In-Car Communication system (ICC system) is capable of improving this situation by re...
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The communication situation inside a passenger compartment can be impaired due to a high background noise at higher ve-locities. An In-Car Communication system (ICC system) is capable of improving this situation by recording the speech signal and reproducing the enhanced speech signal via the integrated loudspeakers. Due to this playback the speech level at the ears of listening passenger is increased but the signal is also fed back to the talking passenger. This might be disturbing for the talking passenger and hence might also be a quality issue of an ICC system. Up to now, the impact of this effect is not entirely clear and has not been investigated in detail yet. This contribution gives a first glance on this self-masking effect. Therefore, a psycho-acoustic experiment with test persons is presented in which these subjects should define in various scenarios, if the feedback is audible or even disturbing. The parameters of a scenario such as the delay of the feedback, the frequency range, and the current background noise are varied. Finally, the effect of the different parameters on the talking passenger and the impact on the quality of an ICC system is investigated.
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