Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes

Jesper Jensen; C.H. Taal

Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes

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This paper deals with the problem of predicting the average intelligibility of noisy and potentially processed speech signals, as observed by a group of normal hearing listeners. We propose a prediction model based on the hypothesis that intelligibility is monotonically related to the the amount of Shannon information the critical-band amplitude envelopes of the noisy/processed signal convey about the corresponding clean signal envelopes. The resulting intelligibility predictor turns out to be a simple function of the correlation between noisy/processed and clean amplitude envelopes. The proposed predictor performs well (ρ>0.95) in predicting the intelligibility of speech signals contaminated by additive noise and potentially non-linearly processed using time-frequency weighting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013) : Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies
Number of pages	5
Publisher	International Speech Communications Association
Publication date	2013
Pages	1174-1178
ISBN (Print)	978-1-62993-443-3
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	Interspeech 2013 - Lyon, France Duration: 25 Aug 2013 → 29 Aug 2013 http://www.interspeech2013.org/

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Conference	Interspeech 2013
Country/Territory	France
City	Lyon
Period	25/08/2013 → 29/08/2013
Internet address	http://www.interspeech2013.org/

Series	Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
ISSN	1990-9772

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Jensen, J., & Taal, C. H. (2013). Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes. In 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013): Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies (pp. 1174-1178). International Speech Communications Association.

Jensen, Jesper ; Taal, C.H. / Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes. 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013): Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies. International Speech Communications Association, 2013. pp. 1174-1178 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing).

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Jensen, J & Taal, CH 2013, Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes. in 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013): Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies. International Speech Communications Association, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1174-1178, Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France, 25/08/2013.

Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes. / Jensen, Jesper; Taal, C.H.
14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013): Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies. International Speech Communications Association, 2013. p. 1174-1178 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing).

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Jensen J, Taal CH. Prediction of Intelligibility of Noisy and Time-Frequency Weighted Speech based on Mutual Information Between Amplitude Envelopes. In 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013): Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies. International Speech Communications Association. 2013. p. 1174-1178. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing).

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