Speech Intelligibility Advantages Using an Acoustic Beamformer Display

Begault D, Sunder K, Godfroy M, Otto P. Speech Intelligibility Advantages Using an Acoustic Beamformer Display. In: AES Convention 139. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 211. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17887

@inproceedings{Begault2015_17887,
  author = {Begault, Durand and Sunder, Kaushik and Godfroy, Martine and Otto, Peter},
  title = {{Speech Intelligibility Advantages Using an Acoustic Beamformer Display}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 139},
  note = {Paper 211},
  year = {2015},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17887}
}

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AB  - A speech intelligibility test conforming to the Modified Rhyme Test of ANSI S3.2 “Method for Measuring the Intelligibility of Speech Over Communication Systems” was conducted using a prototype 12-channel acoustic beamformer system. The target speech material (signal) was identified against speech babble (noise), with calculated signal-noise ratios of 0, 5 and 10 dB. The signal was delivered at a fixed beam orientation of 135 degrees (re 90 degrees as the frontal direction of the array) and the noise at 135 (co-located) and 0 degrees (separated). A significant improvement in intelligibility from 58% to 75% was found for spatial separation for the same signal-noise ratio (0 dB). Significant effects for improved intelligibility due to spatial separation were also found for higher signal-noise ratios.
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