Speech-To-Screen: Spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen

Philippa J. Demonte; Yan Tang; Richard J. Hughes; Trevor J. Cox; Bruno M. Fazenda; Ben G. Shirley

Speech-To-Screen: Spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen

Philippa J. Demonte, Yan Tang, Richard J. Hughes, Trevor J. Cox, Bruno M. Fazenda, Ben G. Shirley

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Can externalizing dialogue when in the presence of stereo background noise improve speech intelligibility? This has been investigated for audio over headphones using head-tracking in order to explore potential future developments for small-screen devices. A quantitative listening experiment tasked participants with identifying target words in spoken sentences played in the presence of background noise via headphones. 16 different combinations of 3 independent variables were tested: speech and noise locations (internalized/externalized), video (on/off), and masking noise (stationary/fluctuating noise). The results revealed that the best improvements to speech intelligibility were generated by both the video-on condition and externalizing speech at the screen whilst retaining masking noise in the stereo mix.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	144th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2018 - Milan, Italy Duration: May 23 2018 → May 26 2018

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Conference	144th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2018
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	5/23/18 → 5/26/18

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Acoustics and Ultrasonics
Modeling and Simulation

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