A Binaural Short Time Objective Intelligibility Measure for Noisy and Enhanced Speech

Asger Heidemann Andersen; Jan Mark De Haan; Zheng Hua Tan; Jesper Jensen

A Binaural Short Time Objective Intelligibility Measure for Noisy and Enhanced Speech

Asger Heidemann Andersen, Jan Mark De Haan, Zheng Hua Tan, Jesper Jensen

Department of Electronic Systems

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Abstract

Objective intelligibility measures are increasingly being used to assess the performance of speech processing algorithms, e.g. for hearing aids. It has been shown that the short time objective intelligibility (STOI) measure yields good results in this respect. In this paper we propose a binaural extension of the STOI measure, which predicts binaural advantage using a modified equalization cancellation (EC) stage. The proposed method is evaluated for a range of acoustic conditions. Firstly, the method is able to predict the advantage of spatial separation between a speech target and a speech shaped noise (SSN) interferer. Secondly, the method yields results comparable to the monaural STOI measure when presented with noisy speech processed by ideal time-frequency segregation (ITFS). Finally, the method also performs well when presented with a selection of different acoustic conditions combined with beamforming as used in hearing aids.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Volume	2015-January
Publisher	International Speech and Communication Association
Publication date	Sept 2015
Pages	2563-2567
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015
Event	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015 - Dresden, Germany Duration: 6 Sept 2015 → 10 Sept 2015

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Conference	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Dresden
Period	06/09/2015 → 10/09/2015
Sponsor	Alibaba Group, Amazon, et al., Facebook, Google, Telekom Innovation Laboratories

Series	INTERSPEECH
ISSN	1990-9770

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Andersen, A. H., De Haan, J. M., Tan, Z. H., & Jensen, J. (2015). A Binaural Short Time Objective Intelligibility Measure for Noisy and Enhanced Speech. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (Vol. 2015-January, pp. 2563-2567). International Speech and Communication Association. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2015/i15_2563.html

Andersen, Asger Heidemann ; De Haan, Jan Mark ; Tan, Zheng Hua et al. / A Binaural Short Time Objective Intelligibility Measure for Noisy and Enhanced Speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Vol. 2015-January International Speech and Communication Association, 2015. pp. 2563-2567 (INTERSPEECH ).

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