Title :
King-Kopetzky syndrome: An approach for a solution
Author :
Nawfal, Wissam ; Al-Aawar, Nizar ; Moslem, B.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., Rafik Hariri Univ., Meshref, Lebanon
Abstract :
King-Kopetzky syndrome (KKS) is recognized as a clinical disorder in the hearing system of a human being. It is defined as the condition in which an individual possess a normal hearing threshold on pure tone audiometry however complains about his inability or difficulty in understanding speech in the presence of background noise. In what follows is a proposed approach for a solution for KKS consisting of three main blocks starting by separating mixed signals, then identifying the speaker of each speech signal, and finally applying a selectivity method for selecting the intended speaker. Convolutive Blind Source Separation (CoBliSS) was used for signal separation while speaker identification depended on Mel Frequency Cepstral Correlations as features and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) as a classifier. The results show that the proposed technique can be used as a possible solution for KKS.
Keywords :
blind source separation; hearing; medical disorders; medical signal processing; multilayer perceptrons; signal classification; speaker recognition; speech recognition; King-Kopetzky syndrome; MLP; Mel frequency cepstral correlation; background noise; clinical disorder; convolutive blind source separation; hearing system; human being; mixed signal separation; multilayer perceptron; pure tone audiometry; speaker identification; speech signal; Auditory system; Blind source separation; Correlation; Mel frequency cepstral coefficient; Speaker recognition; Speech; Speech recognition; Blind Source Separation (BSS); Cocktail Party Problem; King-Kopetzky Syndrome (KSS); Selective Attention; Text-Independent Speaker Recognition; classification;
Conference_Titel :
Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2014 17th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Beirut
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.2014.6820541