Automated Speech/Other Discrimination for Loudness Monitoring

Robinson C, Vinton M. Automated Speech/Other Discrimination for Loudness Monitoring. In: AES Convention 118. Audio Engineering Society; 2005. Paper 6437. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13153

@inproceedings{Robinson2005_13153,
  author = {Robinson, Charlie and Vinton, Mark},
  title = {{Automated Speech/Other Discrimination for Loudness Monitoring}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 118},
  note = {Paper 6437},
  year = {2005},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13153}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Automated Speech/Other Discrimination for Loudness Monitoring
AU  - Robinson, Charlie
AU  - Vinton, Mark
T2  - AES Convention 118
M1  - Paper 6437
PY  - 2005
DA  - 2005/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13153
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Inter-program audio level discrepancies continue to plague the content creation and broadcast industries. In particular, end users often are compelled to make adjustments to audio playback levels. It has previously been established that leveling programs based on dialogue loudness can improve listener satisfaction; however, it is difficult to measure as it requires a human to continuously monitor an audio stream and measure only the loudness during speech portions of the content. This paper presents an automated speech discrimination system that provides a means to detect portions of audio content that contain primarily speech. The speech/other discrimination system takes advantage of well known speech characteristics to achieve a total error of 3% despite delay and computational limitations.
ER  -