Title :
Investigation of speech masking process using white Gaussian noise
Author :
Aly, Onsy Abdel Alim ; Kanj, Boushra Ouday
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Beirut Arab Univ., Beirut, Lebanon
Abstract :
This paper discusses the effect of frequency masking on the perception of phonemes in the American English Language through subjective tests and quantitative analysis where long vowels and specific consonants were perceived better in spite of the presence of white Gaussian noise at higher dB levels than that of the speech. This may help in the analysis of automatic speech recognition in the presence of noise.
Keywords :
Gaussian noise; speech intelligibility; speech recognition; white noise; American English Language; automatic speech recognition; consonants; frequency masking; long vowels; phoneme perception; quantitative analysis; speech masking process; subjective test; white Gaussian noise; Gaussian noise; Spectrogram; Speech; Speech processing; Speech recognition; White noise;
Conference_Titel :
Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2014 17th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Beirut
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.2014.6820507
