Acoustical SocietyIntelligibilityPerception of SpeechAcousticMeasurementsPhoneticsICASSPVisualizationSoundLaryngealMeasurementSpeakersRecognitionAuditoryDisordersSynthesisHearingProcessingNonverbalSpacesInvestigateDysarthriaCommunicationPrivacyVariabilityResearchProjectsConferenceGoodPerformanceDesignNoiseAssessClinical
Acoustical Society4
- Poster presented at Acoustics Virtually Everywhere Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), virtual. (jmu.edu)
- The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) will be running a 12-week PAID summer undergraduate research program for students interested in the area of Acoustics. (acousticalsociety.org)
- The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. (acousticalsociety.org)
- ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world's leading journal on acoustics), Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. (acousticalsociety.org)
Intelligibility11
- Studies on the intelligibility of time-compressed speech have shown flawless performance for moderate compression factors, a sharp deterioration for compression factors above three, and an improved performance as a result of "repackaging"-a process of dividing the time-compressed waveform into fragments, called packets, and delivering the packets in a prescribed rate. (frontiersin.org)
- Studies on the effects of time compression of speech on intelligibility (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
- Considering speech as an inherently rhythmic phenomenon, in which linguistic information is pseudo-rhythmically transmitted in syllabic packets 1 , Ghitza and Greenberg (2009) questioned whether intelligibility is influenced by neuronal oscillations. (frontiersin.org)
- They measured the intelligibility of time-compressed speech subjected to "repackaging"-a process of dividing a time-compressed speech into fragments, called packets, and delivering the packets in a prescribed rate. (frontiersin.org)
- As expected, the intelligibility of speech time-compressed by a factor of three (i.e., a high syllabic rate) was poor. (frontiersin.org)
- A master class in Building Acoustics: Speech intelligibility, Speech privacy, and related NCC and Green Star requirements. (architecture.com.au)
- Building & room acoustics (HVAC system noise, room soundproofing, facade sound insulation, structure-borne noise and vibration control, reverberation issues, speech privacy and intelligibility optimization, acoustic performance measurements, evaluations and recommendations following Tarion Construction Performance Guidelines, WELL Building Standards, and LEED Green Building Rating Program. (softdb.com)
- Classroom acoustics and speech intelligibility in children have also gained renewed interest because of the importance of effective speech comprehension in noise on learning. (cdc.gov)
- Finally, substantial work has been made in developing models aimed at better predicting speech intelligibility. (cdc.gov)
- This summary of the last three years' research highlights some of the most recent issues for the workplace, for older adults, and for children, as well as the effectiveness of warning sounds and models for predicting speech intelligibility. (cdc.gov)
- Speech audiometry in noise based on sentence tests is an important diagnostic tool to assess listeners' speech recognition threshold (SRT), i.e., the signal-to-noise ratio corresponding to 50% intelligibility. (bvsalud.org)
Perception of Speech1
Acoustic5
- In addition to acoustic examination of speech, more recently, the Speech Acoustics Lab has also developed a protocol for speech kinematic research with the use of the Wave electromagnetic articulograph speech research system (Northern Digital Inc. (jmu.edu)
- Purpose: This study investigated acoustic-phonetic modifications produced in noise-adapted speech (NAS) and clear speech (CS) by children, young adults, and older adults. (ed.gov)
- Audio Toolbox™ provides tools for audio processing, speech analysis, and acoustic measurement. (mathworks.com)
- The acoustic aspects of speech in terms of frequency, intensity, and time. (bvsalud.org)
- To test for systematic acoustic differences between these vocal domains, we analyzed a broad, cross-cultural corpus representing over 2 h of speech, singing, and nonverbal vocalizations. (lu.se)
Measurements3
- The use of automatic speech recognition enables self -conducted measurements with an easy-to-use speech -based interface. (bvsalud.org)
- We investigate the differences between highly controlled measurements in the laboratory and smart speaker-based tests for young normal- hearing (NH) listeners as well as for elderly NH, mildly and moderately hearing -impaired listeners in low, medium, and highly reverberant room acoustics . (bvsalud.org)
- For detecting a clinically elevated SRT, the speech -based test achieves an area under the curve value of 0.95 and therefore seems promising for complementing clinical measurements. (bvsalud.org)
Phonetics1
ICASSP4
- ICASSP, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, is an annual flagship conference organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society. (wikipedia.org)
- The first ICASSP was held in 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, based on the success of a conference in Massachusetts four years earlier that had focused specifically on speech signals. (wikipedia.org)
- Attending the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019 Attending the international conference ICASSP in Brighton provided me a lot of chance to communicate with superior researchers in related research fields. (tapas-etn-eu.org)
- Three articles has received the Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP 2016 and one the rewarded articles were publication of the Department of Signal Processing and acoustics. (aalto.fi)
Visualization1
- Wavesurfer [1] software served as our speech visualization and labelling tool. (acoustics.org)
Sound14
- The overall speech messages generated by speech synthesis systems sound somewhat awkward and monotonous. (acoustics.org)
- Armstrong World Industries is increasing education around its portfolio of Total Acoustics ceilings to ensure that architects, designers, owners and managers of buildings of all shapes and sizes are aware of the options that exist for reducing noise and blocking sound from traveling to adjacent spaces. (wconline.com)
- With a mission of helping decision-makers in new construction and renovation projects achieve high-performance acoustics, the Armstrong educational campaign emphasizes the difference between ceiling products that simply absorb sound compared to those that both absorb and block sound. (wconline.com)
- In addition, the campaign illustrates the long-term advantages that can result from an upfront investment in Total Acoustics ceilings, which provide three levels of sound absorption plus high sound-blocking performance in one ceiling panel. (wconline.com)
- Ceilings with a high NRC rating (sound absorption) and no CAC rating (sound blocking) can only help absorb sound within a space, but they cannot effectively block sound from leaving or entering the space, proving inadequate for spaces where speech privacy is required," said Sean Browne, manager of codes and standards at Armstrong World Industries. (wconline.com)
- whereas Total Acoustics ceilings - with their ability to both absorb and block sound - can save time and money and make future space reconfigurations easier. (wconline.com)
- All Total Acoustics ceilings have a Ceiling Attenuation Class of 35 or higher, which delivers effective sound blocking, ensuring confidential speech privacy and sound isolation between adjacent spaces that share the same plenum. (wconline.com)
- Many facilities - from schools and health care spaces to law firms and corporate offices - can't afford the cost or downtime for renovations if sound absorption alone doesn't cut it in terms of noise control and speech privacy," Browne continued. (wconline.com)
- All this can be avoided by choosing a Total Acoustics ceiling with a combination of sound absorption and blocking from the start. (wconline.com)
- Because of their ability to both absorb and block sound, ceilings with Total Acoustics performance contribute to the well-being, comfort, satisfaction and productivity of building occupants, meeting standards such as WELL and LEED and addressing acoustical design guidelines, including ANSI/ASA S12.60, FGI Guidelines, HIPAA and HCAHPS. (wconline.com)
- To make it easy to specify the right ceiling for a space, Total Acoustics panels are rated as good, better and best based on their combination of sound absorption and sound blocking. (wconline.com)
- Room acoustics is a subfield of acoustics dealing with the behaviour of sound in enclosed or partially-enclosed spaces. (wikipedia.org)
- The topics presented include the recording of meetings with modern sensors, multiparty speech recognition, obtaining transcripts from meetings, the processing of the data from arrays of sensors, such as pointclouds and 3D audio, into photographs, video, 3D video as well as binaural, surround sound or ambisonic audio. (w3.org)
- Key aspects are speech comfort: the ability of the teacher to be heard through sufficient sound environment (acoustics and background / activity sounds) and with effective voice and communication (voice load, voice quality, nonverbal communication) and listening effort: the child's potential effort in perception of the spoken and language understanding in relation to the child's cognitive capacity. (lu.se)
Laryngeal1
Measurement1
- The clinical standard measurement procedure requires a professional experimenter to record and evaluate the response (expert-conducted speech audiometry ). (bvsalud.org)
Speakers4
- For all six speakers a baseline speech segmentation was conducted for words, and accentual phrases in a semi-automatic way. (acoustics.org)
- Conclusions: Findings have implications for a model of speech production in healthy speakers as well as the potential to aid in clinical decision making for individuals with speech disorders, particularly dysarthria. (ed.gov)
- Speech Audiometry at Home: Automated Listening Tests via Smart Speakers With Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners. (bvsalud.org)
- With smart speakers, there is no control over the absolute presentation level, potential errors from the automated response logging, and room acoustics . (bvsalud.org)
Recognition1
- In the broader context, the study reported here aims at unveiling cortical computational principles that govern recognition , using the speech communication mode as a vehicle. (frontiersin.org)
Auditory7
- One neural mechanism proposed to underlie the ability to attend to a particular speaker is phase-locking of lowfrequency activity in auditory cortex to speech's temporal envelope ("speech-tracking"), which is more precise for attended speech. (mpg.de)
- We recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) and compared attentional effects on the speech-tracking response in auditory cortex. (mpg.de)
- In the study described here the hypothesized role of theta was examined by measuring the auditory channel capacity of time-compressed speech undergone repackaging. (frontiersin.org)
- Irrespective of speech speed, the maximum information transfer rate through the auditory channel is the information in one uncompressed θ-syllable long speech fragment per one θ max cycle. (frontiersin.org)
- The interference of noise with communication can have significant social consequences, especially for persons with hearing loss, and may compromise safety (e.g. failure to perceive auditory warning signals), influence worker productivity and learning in children, affect health (e.g. vocal pathology, noise-induced hearing loss), compromise speech privacy, and impact social participation by the elderly. (cdc.gov)
- For workers, attempts have been made to: 1) Better define the auditory performance needed to function effectively and to directly measure these abilities when assessing Auditory Fitness for Duty, 2) design hearing protection devices that can improve speech understanding while offering adequate protection against loud noises, and 3) improve speech privacy in open-plan offices. (cdc.gov)
- As the elderly are particularly vulnerable to the effects of noise, an understanding of the interplay between auditory, cognitive, and social factors and its effect on speech communication and social participation is also critical. (cdc.gov)
Disorders1
- The overarching goal of the Speech Acoustics Lab is to contribute to our understanding of speech production characteristics, speech motor control, and motor speech disorders. (jmu.edu)
Synthesis6
- Recent advances in speech synthesis technologies bring us relatively high quality synthetic speech, as smartphones today often provide it with speech message output. (acoustics.org)
- One of the reasons for this is that most systems use a one-sentence speech synthesis scheme in which each sentence in the message is generated independently, connected just to construct the message. (acoustics.org)
- The lack of expressiveness might hinder widening the range of applications for speech synthesis. (acoustics.org)
- Storytelling is a typical application to expect speech synthesis to be capable of having a control mechanism beyond just one sentence to provide really vivid and expressive storytelling. (acoustics.org)
- This work attempts to investigate the actual storytelling strategies of human narration experts for the purpose of ultimately reflecting them on the expressiveness of speech synthesis. (acoustics.org)
- The paper is titled "High-pitched excitation generation for glottal vocoding in statistical parametric speech synthesis using a deep neural network" by Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Manu Airaksinen and Paavo Alku . (aalto.fi)
Hearing9
- Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (jmu.edu)
- The reading span test is important because it often predicts how well people with hearing loss can understand speech. (acoustics.org)
- Surprisingly, we did not find a relationship between remembering lists of numbers and understanding speech like we did in young adults with normal hearing. (acoustics.org)
- This finding indicates that age and/or hearing loss change which parts of working memory relate to understanding speech. (acoustics.org)
- Cognitive factors contribute to speech perception in cochlear-implant users and age-matched normal-hearing listeners under vocoded conditions. (acoustics.org)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (ed.gov)
- Hearing and speech changes with age. (acousticstoday.org)
- These articles highlight the special nature of hearing and speech in younger and older humans. (acousticstoday.org)
- I would also like to thank the librarians and Pamela Mason at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for their help in identifying the additional articles that will soon be added to this series of summary tables. (cdc.gov)
Processing6
- The Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society. (wikipedia.org)
- However, it is not known what brings about this attentional effect, and specifically if it reflects enhanced processing of the fine structure of attended speech. (mpg.de)
- These findings suggest that the more precise speech-tracking of attended natural speech is related to processing its fine structure, possibly reflecting the application of higher-order linguistic processes. (mpg.de)
- Main Conference of Signal Processing, Speech Technology and acoustics was held during 20-25 March 2016 at Shanghai, China. (aalto.fi)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 2017, 25 (1), 35-49. (ncl.ac.uk)
- Estimating the fundamental frequency of harmonically related signals form an integral part in a wide range of signal processing applications, and perhaps especially so in speech and audio processing. (lu.se)
Nonverbal1
Spaces1
- Realizing that different spaces have different needs, Armstrong focuses on providing Total Acoustics solutions that match the purpose of the facility - whether it's education, health care, or offices - and address specific needs of its occupants, all while supporting the design vision. (wconline.com)
Investigate1
Dysarthria1
- Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which vowel metrics are capable of distinguishing healthy from dysarthric speech and among different forms of dysarthria. (elsevierpure.com)
Communication1
Privacy2
- Real-world independent acoustical testing in common-plenum shared offices confirms that high CAC Total Acoustics panels help deliver confidential speech privacy," Browne explained. (wconline.com)
- They're a relatively new breed of office furniture that's quickly catching on to satisfy soaring employee demand for privacy and good acoustics. (neocon.com)
Variability2
- The ease by which we can comprehend speech irrespective of inter-speaker variability-in gender, age, accent, speed, duration-is therefore remarkable. (frontiersin.org)
- A particular phonetic variability of interest is speech speed. (frontiersin.org)
Research3
- This program will emphasize training, mentoring, research, and preparing students for graduate studies & careers in acoustics. (acousticalsociety.org)
- 11-weeks of in-person research or internship experience, working closely with a mentor in acoustics. (acousticalsociety.org)
- For example, the fun- damental frequency, or pitch, is necessary when forming the long-term pre- diction used in linear prediction-based speech codecs [2], and is similarly the $This work was supported in part by the Swedish Research Council and Carl Trygger's foundation. (lu.se)
Projects1
Conference1
Good1
- These tests were as good as reading span at predicting how well these participants could understand unclear speech. (acoustics.org)
Performance3
- As a result, their ability to understand speech is correlated with their performance on working memory tests (O'Neill et al. (acoustics.org)
- Plenum barriers, additional finishing and extra accessories become unnecessary when installing ceilings with Total Acoustics performance. (wconline.com)
- To meet the criteria for Total Acoustics performance, ceiling panels must have a Noise Reduction Coefficient of 0.60 or greater and a CAC of 35 or greater. (wconline.com)
Design1
- Moreover, Total Acoustics offers a wide variety of ceiling material options - including mineral fiber, metal, wood and wood fiber - to provide maximum design flexibility. (wconline.com)
Noise1
- With unrivalled expertise in the field of vibro-acoustics, backed by more than 25 years' practical experience, we're proud to offer acoustical engineering services and cutting-edge noise and vibration control solutions across Ontario through our Toronto office. (softdb.com)
Assess1
- This finding indicates that the reading span test is just one way to assess the parts of memory that relate to understanding speech. (acoustics.org)