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Can externalizing dialogue when in the presence of stereo background noise improve speech intelligibility? This has been investigated for audio over headphones using head-tracking in order to explore potential future developments for small-screen devices. A quantitative listening experiment tasked participants with identifying target words in spoken sentences played in the presence of background noise via headphones. Sixteen different combinations of 3 independent variables were tested: speech and noise locations (internalized/externalized), video (on/off), and masking noise (stationary/fluctuating noise). The results revealed that the best improvements to speech intelligibility were generated by both the video-on condition and externalizing speech at the screen while retaining masking noise in the stereo mix.
Author (s): Demonte, Philippa; Tang, Yan; Hughes, Richard J.; Cox, Trevor; Fazenda, Bruno; Shirley, Ben
Affiliation:
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
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AES Convention: 144
Paper Number:10011
Publication Date:
2018-05-06
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Perception – Part 3
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Demonte, Philippa; Tang, Yan; Hughes, Richard J.; Cox, Trevor; Fazenda, Bruno; Shirley, Ben; 2018; Speech-To-Screen: Spatial Separation of Dialogue from Noise towards Improved Speech Intelligibility for the Small Screen [PDF]; University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK; Paper 10011; Available from: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19407
Demonte, Philippa; Tang, Yan; Hughes, Richard J.; Cox, Trevor; Fazenda, Bruno; Shirley, Ben; Speech-To-Screen: Spatial Separation of Dialogue from Noise towards Improved Speech Intelligibility for the Small Screen [PDF]; University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK; Paper 10011; 2018 Available: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19407
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