• DocumentCode
    143478
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    13-16 April 2014
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    63
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2014 17th IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Beirut
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MELCON.2014.6820507
  • Filename
    6820507