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Martin, Rex. "Intelligibility." Monist 74, no. 2 (1991): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/monist19917427.

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Yazan, Bedrettin. "Intelligibility." ELT Journal 69, no. 2 (February 2, 2015): 202–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccu073.

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Hawkins, Sarah. "Can CV intelligibility predict speech intelligibility." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 3933. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2935995.

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Gordon-Brannan, Mary. "Assessing intelligibility." Topics in Language Disorders 14, no. 2 (February 1994): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00011363-199402000-00004.

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Beechey, Timothy. "Is speech intelligibility what speech intelligibility tests test?" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152, no. 3 (September 2022): 1573–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0013896.

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Natural, conversational speech signals contain sources of symbolic and iconic information, both of which are necessary for the full understanding of speech. But speech intelligibility tests, which are generally derived from written language, present only symbolic information sources, including lexical semantics and syntactic structures. Speech intelligibility tests exclude almost all sources of information about talkers, including their communicative intentions and their cognitive states and processes. There is no reason to suspect that either hearing impairment or noise selectively affect perception of only symbolic information. We must therefore conclude that diagnosis of good or poor speech intelligibility on the basis of standard speech tests is based on measurement of only a fraction of the task of speech perception. This paper presents a descriptive comparison of information sources present in three widely used speech intelligibility tests and spontaneous, conversational speech elicited using a referential communication task. The aim of this comparison is to draw attention to the differences in not just the signals, but the tasks of listeners perceiving these different speech signals and to highlight the implications of these differences for the interpretation and generalizability of speech intelligibility test results.
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Nemade, Milind U., and Satish K. Shah. "Speech Enhancement Techniques: Quality vs. Intelligibility." International Journal of Future Computer and Communication 3, no. 3 (2014): 216–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/ijfcc.2014.v3.299.

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Eisenberg, Laurie S., Donald D. Dirks, Sumiko Takayanagi, and Amy Schaefer Martinez. "Subjective Judgments of Clarity and Intelligibility for Filtered Stimuli With Equivalent Speech Intelligibility Index Predictions." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 41, no. 2 (April 1998): 327–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/jslhr.4102.327.

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The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether subjective judgments of clarity or intelligibility would be rated equally among conditions in which speech was equated for predicted intelligibility (using the Speech Intelligibility Index, SII) but varied in bandwidth. Twenty listeners with normal hearing rated clarity and intelligibility for sentence material (Hearing In Noise Test) in speech-shaped noise at six paired low- and high-pass filtered conditions in which SII was equated for each pair. For three paired conditions, predicted intelligibility increased as SII increased monotonically (0.3, 0.4, 0.5). In the remaining paired conditions, SII continued to increase monotonically (0.6, 0.7, 0.8) but predicted intelligibility was held at a maximal level (≥95%). Predicted intelligibility was estimated from the transfer function relating SII to speech recognition scores determined in preliminary experiments. Differences in ratings between paired low- and high-pass filtered sentences did not reach statistical significance for either clarity or intelligibility, indicating that the spectral differences at equivalent SIIs did not influence the judgments for either of the two dimensions. For conditions in which predicted intelligibility increased, both clarity and intelligibility ratings increased in a similar manner. For conditions in which predicted intelligibility was maximized, intelligibility ratings remained the same statistically across conditions while clarity ratings changed modestly. Although high correlations were observed between clarity and intelligibility ratings, intelligibility ratings were consistently higher than clarity ratings for comparable conditions. The results indicated that listeners with normal hearing produced clarity and intelligibility ratings for the same speech material and experimental conditions that were highly related but differed in magnitude. Caution is required when substituting clarity for intelligibility.
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Hustad, Katherine C., Tristan J. Mahr, Aimee Teo Broman, and Paul J. Rathouz. "Longitudinal Growth in Single-Word Intelligibility Among Children With Cerebral Palsy From 24 to 96 Months of Age: Effects of Speech-Language Profile Group Membership on Outcomes." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 63, no. 1 (January 22, 2020): 32–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2019_jslhr-19-00033.

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Purpose We examined whether there were differences among speech-language profile groups of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in age of crossing 25%, 50%, and 75% intelligibility thresholds; age of greatest intelligibility growth; rate of intelligibility growth; maximum attained intelligibility at 8 years; and how well intelligibility at 36 months predicts intelligibility at 96 months when group membership is accounted for. Profile groups were children with no speech motor impairment (NSMI), those with speech motor impairment and language comprehension that is typically developing (SMI-LCT), and those with speech motor impairment and language comprehension impairment (SMI-LCI). Method Sixty-eight children with CP were followed longitudinally between 24 and 96 months of age. A total of 564 time points were examined across children ( M = 8.3 time points per child, SD = 2.6). We fitted a nonlinear random effects model for longitudinal observations, allowing for differences between profile groups. We used the fitted model trajectories to generate descriptive analyses of intelligibility growth by group and to generate simulations to analyze how well 36-month intelligibility data predicted 96-month data accounting for profile groups. Results Children with CP who have NSMI have different growth and better intelligibility outcomes than those with speech motor impairment. Children with SMI-LCT tend to have better outcomes but similar intelligibility growth as children with SMI-LCI. There may be a subset of children that cut across SMI-LCI and SMI-LCT groups who have severe speech motor involvement and show limited growth in intelligibility. Conclusions Intelligibility outcomes for children with CP are affected by profile group membership. Intelligibility growth tends to be delayed in children with speech motor impairment. Intelligibility at 3 years is highly predictive of later outcomes regardless of profile group. Intervention decision making should include consideration of early intelligibility, and treatment directions should include consideration of augmentative and alternative communication.
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Allison, Kristen M. "Measuring Speech Intelligibility in Children With Motor Speech Disorders." Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 5, no. 4 (August 17, 2020): 809–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_persp-19-00110.

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Purpose Reduced speech intelligibility limits functional communication for many children with motor speech disorders, and improving intelligibility is often a primary goal of intervention. Objective measurement of intelligibility is important for quantifying severity of speech impairment and tracking progress in therapy; however, there is little standardization of methods for measuring speech intelligibility in clinical settings. The purpose of this tutorial is to review different approaches to measuring speech intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders and to discuss the benefits and limitations of using each approach in clinical practice. Method Intelligibility is defined and compared to related constructs. Factors affecting intelligibility of children with motor speech disorders are reviewed. Methods for measuring intelligibility using word identification approaches and scaled ratings are discussed in detail, and their utility in clinical practice is compared. Results Word identification approaches to intelligibility measurement are optimal for tracking progress in therapy but are relatively time consuming. Scaled rating approaches may be adequate in cases where the goal is to obtain an overall measure of severity or for children who are unable to participate in structured testing. Conclusion Different approaches to intelligibility assessment are warranted depending on the clinical goal and characteristics of the child. Speech-language pathologists should consider multiple factors when selecting and interpreting intelligibility measures for their clients.
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Morris, Sherrill R., Kim A. Wilcox, and Tracy L. Schooling. "The Preschool Speech Intelligibility Measure." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 4, no. 4 (November 1995): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360.0404.22.

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Documenting changes in speech intelligibility across time is an important but difficult task for speech-language pathologists. This study reports on the development and initial testing of the Preschool Speech Intelligibility Measure (PSIM), a single-word, multiple-choice intelligibility measure. The PSIM is adapted from the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech (Yorkston & Beukelman, 1981) and is designed to plot changes in children's speech intelligibility across time. This instrument is offered as an addition to the existing array of available speech intelligibility measures.
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Hilkhuysen, Gaston. "Effects of noise reduction on speech intelligibility." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0676/document.

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On perçoit souvent la parole en présence de bien d’autres sons. Parfois les interférences sonores atteignent des niveaux tellement élevés que la parole devient inintelligible. Les méthodes de renforcement de la parole tentent de réduire les bruits ambiants, mais on en sait très peu sur l’effet qu’elles produisent sur l’intelligibilité de la parole. Cette thèse explore les effets des méthodes de renforcement de la parole, aussi appelées algorithmes de suppression du bruit, sur la l’intelligibilité.Après une brève introduction sur les notions de renforcement de la parole et d’intelligibilité, on présente trois études qui abordent les effets de ces méthodes d’un point de vue empirique. On démontre que le résultat de la suppression du bruit tend à réduire l’intelligibilité et que cet effet est constant pour une grande variété de niveaux sonores. Quand on fait appel à des experts pour mettre en place un système commercial de suppression du bruit dans le but d’améliorer l’intelligibilité, ils proposent des réglages qui dégradent l’intelligibilité. Les profanes perçoivent bien une amélioration de l’intelligibilité qui résulte des méthodes de renforcement de la parole.Trois autres études subséquentes tentent de préciser les propriétés du signal, qui ont des effets sur l’intelligibilité et qui sont généré par les méthodes de renforcement de la parole. Des métriques physiques basées sur différentes propriétés du signal ont été utilisées pour estimer l’intelligibilité de la parole renforcée. La plupart de ces mesures fournissent des estimations peu fiables ou biaisées de l’intelligibilité absolue
Speech is often perceived in the presence of other sounds. At times the interfering sounds can reach such high levels that the speech becomes unintelligible. Speech enhancement methods attempt to reduce the audibility of noisy sounds, but little is known about how their influence on intelligibility. This thesis explores the effects of speech enhancement, also known as noise suppression algorithms, on speech intelligibility. After a short introduction to speech enhancement and intelligibility, three studies consider the effects from an empirical perspective. It is shown that noise suppression tends to reduce intelligibility and that its effect is mostly constant across a broad range of noise levels. When experts were asked to apply a commercial noise suppressor to optimise intelligibility, they proposed settings that degraded intelligibility. Laypeople successfully identified an increase in intelligibility resulting from speech enhancement. Three subsequent studies attempt to identify the signal properties responsible for the intelligibility effects and generated by speech enhancement.Physical metrics based on various signal properties were used to estimate the intelligibility of the speech-enhanced noisy signal. Most metrics provided unreliable or biased estimates of absolute intelligibility. Some could nevertheless be used to adjust speech enhancers such that intelligibility is optimal
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Kyong, J. S. "Speech intelligibility and hemispheric asymmetry." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19001/.

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It is very rare, even in degraded listening environments, that we might confuse speech with a dog bark or vice versa, despite the fact that both are complex acoustic signals. Despite the solid assumption of left lateralisation in speech processing from clinical and anatomical observations, the results from brain imaging studies have been inconsistent. One possible cause for this controversy may come from the use of different imaging system. Using inadequate baselines, however, may bring more critical problem. In brain imaging studies, especially when cognitive subtraction is used, images of cognitive processes are generally derived by subtracting a control stimulus/task from an experimental counterpart. The two stimuli/tasks to be compared are expected to differ only in one factor/process and the difference in brain activations is thus considered to come from the particular difference between the two. This thus makes it difficult to find baseline stimuli/tasks that activate all but the process of interest. By far, spectrally rotated speech stands as a most satisfying control against intelligible speech as it is equally complex as speech but totally unintelligible. However, the spectral rotation so far has been a total rotation regardless of the source and the filter of sound, which are independent and heterogeneous by nature. A series of behavioural studies performed in this thesis showed that the source rotation did not significantly affect speech intelligibility whilst filter drastically decreased the intelligibility. Another possibility can be different brain imaging paradigms used. With carefully designed parametres using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we confirmed that intelligible speech recruited predominantly the left superior temporal area, replicating the results from previous positron emission tomography (PET) and fMRI studies. Since the intervention of scanner noise has been an issue in auditory research using an MRI system, four imaging paradigms were compared and it is concluded that a sparse sampling with 8 seconds of repetition time had a clear advantage over longer repetition time with 16 seconds and a continuous sampling. This paradigm was used in the study investigating the effects of channel number and presence/absence of tonal variation on speech intelligibility. Intelligibility increased together with increasing number of band channels and showed drastic improvement especially in the range of 2 – 6 numbers of frequency channel bands. A brain imaging study followed with mixed subtraction and parametric designs and revealed that the right superior temporal gyrus responded most when pitch variation was provided in the speech, regardless of intelligibility, unlike the pitch variation in non-speech (spectrally rotated speech here). Increasing intelligibility with increased spectral detail showed linear increase in percent signal change in hemodynamic response in the left superior temporal gyrus. The current result supports a streamed hierarchical model, in which speech comprehension occurs predominantly in the left hemisphere.
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Kitapci, Kivanc. "Speech intelligibility in multilingual spaces." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3157.

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This thesis examines speech intelligibility and multi-lingual communication, in terms of acoustics and perceptual factors. More specifically, the work focused on the impact of room acoustic conditions on the speech intelligibility of four languages representative of a wide range of linguistic properties (English, Polish, Arabic and Mandarin). Firstly, diagnostic rhyme tests (DRT), phonemically balanced (PB) word lists and phonemically balanced sentence lists have been compared under four room acoustic conditions defined by their speech transmission index (STI = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8). The results obtained indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the word intelligibility scores of languages under all room acoustic conditions, apart from the STI = 0.8 condition. English was the most intelligible language under all conditions, and differences with other languages were larger when conditions were poor (maximum difference of 29% at STI = 0.2, 33% at STI = 0.4 and 14% at STI = 0.6). Results also showed that Arabic and Polish were particularly sensitive to background noise, and that Mandarin was significantly more intelligible than those languages at STI = 0.4. Consonant-to-vowel ratios and languages’ distinctive features and acoustical properties explained some of the scores obtained. Sentence intelligibility scores confirmed variations between languages, but these variations were statistically significant only at the STI = 0.4 condition (sentence tests being less sensitive to very good and very poor room acoustic conditions). Additionally, perceived speech intelligibility and soundscape perception associated to these languages was also analysed in three multi-lingual environments: an airport check-in area, a hospital reception area, and a café. Semantic differential analysis showed that perceived speech intelligibility of each language varies with the type of environment, as well as the type of background noise, reverberation time, and signal-to-noise ratio. Variations between the perceived speech intelligibility of the four languages were only marginally significant (p = 0.051), unlike objective intelligibility results. Perceived speech intelligibility of English appeared to be mostly affected negatively by the information content and distracting sounds present in the background noise. Lastly, the study investigated several standards and design guidelines and showed how adjustments could be made to recommended STI values in order to achieve consistent speech intelligibility ratings across languages.
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Liu, Wei Ming. "Objective assessment of speech intelligibility." Thesis, Swansea University, 2008. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42738.

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This thesis addresses the topic of objective speech intelligibility assessment. Speech intelligibility is becoming an important issue due most possibly to the rapid growth in digital communication systems in recent decades; as well as the increasing demand for security-based applications where intelligibility, rather than the overall quality, is the priority. Afterall, the loss of intelligibility means that communication does not exist. This research sets out to investigate the potential of automatic speech recognition (ASR) in intelligibility assessment, the motivation being the obvious link between word recognition and intelligibility. As a pre-cursor, quality measures are first considered since intelligibility is an attribute encompassed in overall quality. Here, 9 prominent quality measures including the state-of-the-art Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) are assessed. A large range of degradations are considered including additive noise and those introduced by coding and enhancement schemes. Experimental results show that apart from Weighted Spectral Slope (WSS), generally the quality scores from all other quality measures considered here correlate poorly with intelligibility. Poor correlations are observed especially when dealing with speech-like noises and degradations introduced by enhancement processes. ASR is then considered where various word recognition statistics, namely word accuracy, percentage correct, deletion, substitution and insertion are assessed as potential intelligibility measure. One critical contribution is the observation that there are links between different ASR statistics and different forms of degradation. Such links enable suitable statistics to be chosen for intelligibility assessment in different applications. In overall word accuracy from an ASR system trained on clean signals has the highest correlation with intelligibility. However, as is the case with quality measures, none of the ASR scores correlate well in the context of enhancement schemes since such processes are known to improve machine-based scores without necessarily improving intelligibility. This demonstrates the limitation of ASR in intelligibility assessment. As an extension to word modelling in ASR, one major contribution of this work relates to the novel use of a data-driven (DD) classifier in this context. The classifier is trained on intelligibility information and its output scores relate directly to intelligibility rather than indirectly through quality or ASR scores as in earlier attempts. A critical obstacle with the development of such a DD classifier is establishing the large amount of ground truth necessary for training. This leads to the next significant contribution, namely the proposal of a convenient strategy to generate potentially unlimited amounts of synthetic ground truth based on a well-supported hypothesis that speech processings rarely improve intelligibility. Subsequent contributions include the search for good features that could enhance classification accuracy. Scores given by quality measures and ASR are indicative of intelligibility hence could serve as potential features for the data-driven intelligibility classifier. Both are in investigated in this research and results show ASR-based features to be superior. A final contribution is a novel feature set based on the concept of anchor models where each anchor represents a chosen degradation. Signal intelligibility is characterised by the similarity between the degradation under test and a cohort of degradation anchors. The anchoring feature set leads to an average classification accuracy of 88% with synthetic ground truth and 82% with human ground truth evaluation sets. The latter compares favourably with 69% achieved by WSS (the best quality measure) and 68% by word accuracy from a clean-trained ASR (the best ASR-based measure) which are assessed on identical test sets.
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Gonçalves, Alison Roberto. "In search of speech intelligibility." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2014. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/123415.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, 2014.
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A pesquisa que envolve a fala tem abordado a questão da inteligibilidade para entender como determinados aspectos fonológicos afetam a comunicação entre indivíduos que têm línguas-maternas diferentes, e que também usam inglês como uma segunda língua (L2). Assim, pesquisas empíricas são necessárias para informar o ensino, especialmente, no que tange aspectos da pronúncia da L2 que devem constituir o foco de instrução na sala de aula. Portanto, o presente estudo investigou a inteligibilidade das vogais altas anteriores do inglês focando (1) nas características acústicas das vogais altas anteriores do inglês produzidas por aprendizes brasileiros, (2) nos perfis dos ouvintes (proficiência da L2 e tempo de residência no Brasil), e (3) na familiaridade e frequência do léxico. Os falantes foram 20 estudantes brasileiros que gravaram sentenças contendo palavras com as vogais altas anteriores do inglês, /?/ e /?/. Para observar como essas categorias vocálicas organizavam-se na interlíngua dos falantes e, assim, selecionar os dados para o teste de inteligibilidade, plotagens dos dados em versão normalizada e não-normalizada foram obtidas. Para testar os efeitos de proximidade espectral na inteligibilidade dessas vogais, um critério baseado na proximidade espectral do primeiro formante (F1) foi estabelecido. Inteligibilidade foi avaliada com o uso de transcrição ortográfica (Derwing & Munro, 2005), e os ouvintes foram 32 usuários de inglês de 11 línguas-maternas diferentes. A análise acústica demonstrou que as vogais altas anteriores do inglês foram produzidas como vogais equivalentes (Flege, 1995), e tendiam a sobrepor-se. Resultados concernentes à inteligibilidade indicaram que a vogal tensa foi mais ininteligível, pois era inadequadamente transcrita como a vogal frouxa. Em uma análise qualitativa, considerando o item lexical que continha cada vogal, observou-se que processos fonológicos presentes nessas palavras, tais como desvozeamento de consoantes e palatalização, afetaram consideravelmente a inteligibilidade da fala. Além do mais, efeitos da proficiência do ouvinte na L2 foram testados e proficiência demonstrou-se ser uma importante característica individual para aferição da inteligibilidade da fala, pois observou-se que o nível de inteligibilidade aumentava juntamente com o nível de proficiência do ouvinte. O tempo de residência dos ouvintes no Brasil foi investigado como um indicador indireto de familiaridade com sotaque, mas as correlações não indicaram resultados significativos. Para analisar frequência lexical, o Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) foi utilizado. A familiaridade dos ouvintes com o léxico utilizado no teste de inteligibilidade foi também observada. As correlações revelaram que a relação entre frequência lexical, familiaridade com o léxico, e respostas corretas no teste de inteligibilidade eram significativas, demonstrando que quanto mais frequente o item lexical, mais familiar e mais inteligível era esse item também. Em suma, resultados demonstram que as vogais altas anteriores, quando não distinguidas, podem influenciar negativamente a inteligibilidade. Não obstante, existem outras variáveis linguísticas e variáveis relacionadas ao ouvinte que estão propensas a influenciar na decodificação da fala que, em investigações referentes à inteligibilidade, podem ser observadas em diferentes níveis (vogal, consoante, e nível da palavra).
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Singh, Maneesh Kumar. "Methods for Speech Intelligibility Enhancement." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57107.

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Modulation domain has been reported to be a better alternative to Frequency domain for speech enhancement, as speech intelligibility is closely linked with the modulation spectrum. This suggests that the modulation spectrum may assist in the demarcation of speech and noise. Motivated by that, this thesis investigates the role of modulation domain towards the speech intelligibility improvements. Acknowledging the fact that the Gaussian assumption for all noise DFT coefficients does not necessarily hold, this thesis suggests the best noise density function which is suitable for both the frequency and modulation domain based speech applications.
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Leclère, Thibaud. "Towards a binaural model for predicting speech intelligibility among competing voices in rooms." Thesis, Vaulx-en-Velin, Ecole nationale des travaux publics, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENTP0008/document.

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Ce travail de thèse vise à proposer un modèle pouvant prédire l’intelligibilité d’une voix cible masquée par des sources concurrentes dans les salles. Un modèle a déjà été développé par Lavandier et Culling (2010) et est capable de prédire l’intelligibilité d’une cible en champ proche perturbée par plusieurs sources de bruit. Le travail présenté ici traite des nouvelles implémentations et expérimentations nécessaires pour étendre le modèle au cas de cibles distantes et au cas de voix concurrentes, qui présentent des propriétés acoustiques différentes des bruits stationnaires (fluctuation d’enveloppe, fréquence fondamentale, modulations de fréquence fondamentale). L’effet nuisible de la réverbération sur la parole cible a été implémenté avec succès. Cette nouvelle version du modèle permet une interprétation unifiée de plusieurs effetsperceptifs observés dans la littérature mais il présente une dépendance de la salle, ce qui limite son aspect prédictif. Des travaux expérimentaux ont été menés pour déterminer comment le modèle pourrait prendre en compte le cas de sources cibles et masquantes avec des spectres différents ainsi que le cas où plusieurs mécanismes auditifs opèrent simultanément (ségrégation par F0, démasquage spatialet écoute dans les creux de modulation)
This PhD work aims to propose a model predicting the perceived intelligibility of a target speech masked by competing sources in rooms. An existing model developed by Lavandier and Culling (2010) is already able to predict speech intelligibility of a near-field target in the presence of multiple noise sources. The present work deals with new implementations and experimental work needed to extend the model tothe case of a distant target and to the case of masking voices, which present different acoustical properties than noises (envelope fluctuations, fundamental frequency, modulations of fundamental frequency). The detrimental effect of reverberation on the target speech has been successfully implemented. This new version of the model provides a unified interpretation of several perceptual effects previously observed in the literature but it presents a room dependency which limits its predictive power. Experimental work has been conducted to determine how the model could account for sources presenting different spectra, and to account for several auditory mechanisms operating simultaneously (F0 segregation, spatial unmasking and temporal dip listening)
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Chau, Chung-man Zenith. "Intelligibility of Cantonese speakers following glossectomy." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3620741X.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2000.
"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), the University of Hong Kong, May 10, 2000." Also available in print.
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Wagener, Kirsten Carola. "Factors influencing sentence intelligibility in noise." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2003. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=969986181.

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Knight, Stephen. "Speech intelligibility estimation via neural networks /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10595.

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Books on the topic "Intelligibility of"

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Perron, Louis. Whence intelligibility? Washington, D.C: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2014.

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1961-, Lundsten L., Siitonen Arto, Österman Bernt, and Suomen Filosofinen Yhdistys, eds. Communication and intelligibility. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica, 2001.

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Allen, Jont B. Articulation and Intelligibility. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02554-9.

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Pier, Jens. Limits of Intelligibility. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142133.

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Indeterminacy and intelligibility. Albany: State University Press of New York Press, 1992.

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Lingis, Alphonso. Sensation: Intelligibility in sensibility. Atlantic Highlands, N.J: Humanities Press, 1996.

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The intelligibility of nature. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985.

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Schlesinger, George N. The intelligibility of nature. [Aberdeen]: Aberdeen University Press, 1985.

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Dear, Peter. The Intelligibility of Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Kent, Raymond D., ed. Intelligibility in Speech Disorders. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sspcl.1.

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Book chapters on the topic "Intelligibility of"

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Weik, Martin H. "intelligibility." In Computer Science and Communications Dictionary, 806. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_9269.

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Allen, Jont B. "Intelligibility." In Articulation and Intelligibility, 97–106. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02554-9_3.

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Dita, Shirley N., and Kristine D. de Leon. "Intelligibility." In Philippine English, 221–30. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429427824-23.

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Whitehill, Tara L., Carrie L. Gotzke, and Megan Hodge. "Speech Intelligibility." In Cleft Palate Speech: Assessment and Intervention, 293–304. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118785065.ch16.

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Weik, Martin H. "voice intelligibility." In Computer Science and Communications Dictionary, 1903. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_20910.

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Reynolds, Susan Bauder. "Mutual Intelligibility?" In Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse, 303. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cll.20.21rey.

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Hodge, Megan, and Tara Whitehill. "Intelligibility Impairments." In The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders, 99–114. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444318975.ch4.

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Brand, Thomas. "Speech Intelligibility." In Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics, 197–204. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30441-0_13.

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Levis, John M., and Alif O. Silpachai. "Speech Intelligibility." In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking, 160–73. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003022497-15.

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Priest, Graham. "On Transcending the Limits of Language." In Limits of Intelligibility, 219–37. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142133-14.

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Conference papers on the topic "Intelligibility of"

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Gilmer, J. Michael. "CVSD Intelligibility Testing." In MILCOM 1985 - IEEE Military Communications Conference. IEEE, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/milcom.1985.4794961.

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Paz Gutierrez, Maria. "Material Bio-Intelligibility." In ACADIA 2008: Silicon + Skin. ACADIA, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2008.278.

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Azman, Amanda S., and David S. Yantek. "Estimating the Performance of Sound Restoration Hearing Protectors by Using the Speech Intelligibility Index." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-37736.

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Despite advances in engineering noise controls and the use of administrative controls, miners are still dependent on hearing protection devices for prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. However, miners often raise concerns about the audibility of spoken communication when wearing conventional hearing protectors. Electronic technologies that selectively process and restore sounds from outside of hearing protectors have been suggested as a partial remedy to the audibility problem. To assess the potential benefits of this technology for miners, NIOSH tested the impact of nine electronic sound restoration hearing protectors on speech intelligibility in selected mining background noises. Because of the number of devices and potential settings of those devices, it was necessary to narrow the choices before conducting human subject testing. This was done by testing the nine devices on an acoustic test fixture (ATF) to acquire one-third-octave-band data, and then calculating the speech intelligibility index (SII) to determine estimates of performance across device, noise and setting. The estimates of speech intelligibility obtained with the SII are highly correlated with the intelligibility of speech under adverse listening conditions such as noise, reverberation, and filtering. The results of fixture based testing indicate that performance varies little between most devices, with few showing exceptionally good or poor estimated speech intelligibility. The most significant differences in estimated performance using the devices were between the different noise sources used, regardless of device or setting. The findings of this research were used to select the devices and settings for subsequent human subject based speech intelligibility testing. The human subject testing results largely concurred with the findings from the acoustic test fixture testing and calculation of speech intelligibility index. Specifically, variations in background noise led to the greatest differences in speech intelligibility.
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Serrano Ruiz, María. "Speech Intelligibility Parameters for Evaluating the Perception of Background Noise in Open-Plan Office Users: A Case Study." In 33rd Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference. International Society for Occupational Ergonomics and Safety, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47461/isoes.2021_021.

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This document presents a case study of acoustic analysis in an open-plan office. Since Mexico does not have a standard for evaluating acoustic conditions in offices, it is relevant to compare different acoustic evaluation methods used for open-plan offices. According to several studies, one of the main acoustic characteristics for open-plan office spaces is speech intelligibility. Therefore, the purpose of this document is to compare psychoacoustic parameters to evaluate speech intelligibility in open-plan offices. We analyzed physical factors as reverberation and speech clarity in different office points, as well as semantic factors based on subjective methods with standardized values of the quality of speech intelligibility. The study was carried out under real open-plan office conditions in a library in a university in northern Mexico. The study factors of interest were type of sound, sound source, and location of the listener, with Reverberation Time (RT), Speech Transmission Index (STI) and Loss of consonant articulation (%ALCons) as the measures of impact on intelligibility. This case study provides additional evidence of the relationship between intelligibility and the position of sound sources; also, it was noted that location of listeners influenced analyzed intelligibility parameters. On the other hand, this case study offers information concerning to use psychoacoustic parameters for subjective classification of quality of the speech intelligibility to evaluate how is background noise perceived in open-plan office users. However, it is noteworthy that this study represents a single office with its own interior and space design characteristics.
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Samardzic, Nikolina, and Colin Novak. "In-vehicle Speech Intelligibility for the Hearing Impaired Using Speech Intelligibility Index." In SAE 2011 Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-1681.

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Janbakhshi, Parvaneh, Ina Kodrasi, and Herve Bourlard. "Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment Based on the Short-time Objective Intelligibility Measure." In ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp.2019.8683741.

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Audemard, Gilles, Steve Bellart, Louenas Bounia, Frédéric Koriche, Jean-Marie Lagniez, and Pierre Marquis. "On the Computational Intelligibility of Boolean Classifiers." In 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning {KR-2021}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/kr.2021/8.

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In this paper, we investigate the computational intelligibility of Boolean classifiers, characterized by their ability to answer XAI queries in polynomial time. The classifiers under consideration are decision trees, DNF formulae, decision lists, decision rules, tree ensembles, and Boolean neural nets. Using 9 XAI queries, including both explanation queries and verification queries, we show the existence of large intelligibility gap between the families of classifiers. On the one hand, all the 9 XAI queries are tractable for decision trees. On the other hand, none of them is tractable for DNF formulae, decision lists, random forests, boosted decision trees, Boolean multilayer perceptrons, and binarized neural networks.
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Zhou, Yishan, and David Danks. "Different "Intelligibility" for Different Folks." In AIES '20: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3375627.3375810.

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Smiljanic, Rajka, and Bharath Chandrasekaran. "Processing speech of varying intelligibility." In ICA 2013 Montreal. ASA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4800127.

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Green, Phil, and James Carmichael. "Revisiting dysarthria assessment intelligibility metrics." In Interspeech 2004. ISCA: ISCA, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2004-201.

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Reports on the topic "Intelligibility of"

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Schmidt-Nielsen, Astrid. Intelligibility and Acceptability Testing for Speech Technology. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada252015.

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Chi, Taishih, Yujie Gao, Matthew C. Guyton, Powen Ru, and Shihab Shamma. Spectro-Temporal Modulation Transfer Functions and Speech Intelligibility. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada439776.

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Divenyi, Pierre L. Prosodic Stress, Information, and Intelligibility of Speech in Noise. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, February 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada495404.

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Langford, Ted L., Ben T. Mozo, James H. Patterson, and Jr. Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility through a Bone Conduction Stimulator. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, July 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada212002.

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Ericson, Mark A., and Richard L. McKinley. The Intelligibility of Multiple Talkers Separated Spatially in Noise. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada388576.

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Scharine, Angelique A., Paula P. Henry, Mohan D. Rao, and Jason T. Dreyer. A Model for Predicting Intelligibility of Binaurally Perceived Speech. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada466840.

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Odell, Lee. Intelligibility of Speech Compared Through Two Limiter Compression Circuits. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1965.

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Levin, David. Japanese Intelligibility and Comprehensibility Assessments of Different English Accents. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.7185.

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Iyer, Nandini, Douglas Brungart, and Brian D. Simpson. Intelligibility of Target Signals in Sequential and Simultaneous Segregation Tasks. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, March 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada499897.

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Pollard, Kimberly A., Lamar Garrett, and Phuong Tran. Bone Conduction Systems for Full-Face Respirators: Speech Intelligibility Analysis. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada600090.

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