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Listening to speech in the presence of other sounds

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posted on 2023-06-07, 19:02 authored by C J Darwin
Although most research on the perception of speech has been conducted with speech presented without any competing sounds, we almost always listen to speech against a background of other sounds which we are adept at ignoring. Nevertheless, such additional irrelevant sounds can cause severe problems for speech recognition algorithms and for the hard of hearing as well as posing a challenge to theories of speech perception. A variety of different problems are created by the presence of additional sound sources: detection of features that are partially masked, allocation of detected features to the appropriate sound sources and the recognition of sounds on the basis of partial information. The separation of sounds is arousing substantial attention in psychoacoustics and in computer science. An effective solution to the problem of separating sounds would have important practical applications.

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  • Published

Journal

Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences

ISSN

1471-2970

Publisher

Royal Society, The

Issue

1493

Volume

363

Page range

1011-1021

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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