著者

Katsuhiko Yamamoto Toshio Irino Toshie Matsui Shoko Araki Keisuke Kinoshita Tomohiro Nakatani

出版者

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

雑誌

Acoustical Science and Technology (ISSN:13463969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.40, no.2, pp.84-92, 2019-03-01 (Released:2019-03-01)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

2

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The speech-based envelope power spectrum model (sEPSM) was developed to predict the speech intelligibility of sounds produced by nonlinear speech enhancement algorithms such as spectral subtraction. It is a linear model with a linear, level-independent gammatone (GT) filterbank as the front-end. Therefore, it seems difficult to evaluate speech sounds with low and high sound pressure levels (SPLs) consistently because the intelligibility of the speech is dependent on the SPL as well as the signal-to-noise ratio. In this study, the sEPSM was extended with the dynamic compressive gammachirp (dcGC) auditory filterbank and a ``common'' normalization factor of the modulation power spectrum component to improve the predictability of the model. For evaluating the proposed model, we performed subjective experiments on the intelligibility of speech sounds enhanced by spectral subtraction and a Wiener filter algorithm. We compared the subjective speech intelligibility scores with the objective scores predicted by the proposed dcGC-sEPSM, original GT-sEPSM, and other well-known conventional methods such as the short-time objective intelligibility measure (STOI), coherence speech intelligibility index (CSII), and hearing aid speech perception index (HASPI). The result shows that the proposed dcGC-sEPSM predicted the subjective results better did than the other methods.

著者

Toshio Irino Masashi Unoki

出版者

Acoustical Society of Japan

雑誌

Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) (ISSN:03882861)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.6, pp.397-406, 1999 (Released:2011-02-17)

参考文献数

26

被引用文献数

8 21

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This paper proposes a new auditory filterbank that enables signal resynthesis from dynamic representations produced by a level-dependent auditory filterbank. The filterbank is based on a new IIR implementation of the gammachirp, which has been shown to be an excellent candidate for asymmetric, level-dependent auditory filters. Initially, the gammachirp filter is shown to be decomposed into a combination of a gammatone filter and an asymmetric function. The asymmetric function is excellently simulated with a minimum-phase IIR filter, named the “asymmetric compensation filter”. Then, two filterbank structures are presented each based on the combination of a gammatone filterbank and a bank of asymmetric compensation filters controlled by a signal level estimation mechanism. The inverse filter of the asymmetric compensation filter is always stable because the minimum-phase condition is satisfied. When a bank of inverse filters is utilized after the gammachirp analysis filterbank and the idea of wavelet transform is applied, it is possible to resynthesize signals with small time-invariant errors and achieve a guaranteed precision. This feature has never been accomplished by conventional active auditory filterbanks. The proposed analysis/synthesis gammachirp filterbank is expected to be useful in various applications where human auditory filtering has to be modeled.

著者

Hideki Banno Hiroaki Hata Masanori Morise Toru Takahashi Toshio Irino Hideki Kawahara

出版者

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

雑誌

Acoustical Science and Technology (ISSN:13463969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, no.3, pp.140-146, 2007 (Released:2007-05-01)

参考文献数

19

被引用文献数

11 28

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A very high quality speech analysis, modification and synthesis system—STRAIGHT—has now been implemented in C language and operated in realtime. This article first provides a brief summary of STRAIGHT components and then introduces the underlying principles that enabled realtime operation. In STRAIGHT, the built-in extended pitch synchronous analysis, which does not require analysis window alignment, plays an important role in realtime implementation. A detailed description of the processing steps, which are based on the so-called “just-in-time” architecture, is presented. Further, discussions on other issues related to realtime implementation and performance measures are also provided. The software will be available to researchers upon request.