In this paper, we propose a new technique to design modulation filters to reduce degradation of speech intelligibility in reverberant environments. Using the inverse modulation transfer function, we design data-derived modulation filters for each speech frequency band. These filters preprocess speech signals between a microphone and a loudspeaker that radiates speech into a performance hall. Using our modulation filters, we conducted perceptual experiments with one hearingimpaired subject and two subjects with normal hearing. Test results indicate that our proposed method improves the intelligibility of reverberant speech.
Cite as: Kitamura, T., Kinoshita, K., Arai, T., Kusumoto, A., Murahara, Y. (2000) Designing modulation filters for improving speech intelligibility in reverberant environments. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 3, 586-589
@inproceedings{kitamura00_icslp,
author={Tomoko Kitamura and Keisuke Kinoshita and Takayuki Arai and Akiko Kusumoto and Yuji Murahara},
title={{Designing modulation filters for improving speech intelligibility in reverberant environments}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 3, 586-589}
}