Speech-To-Screen: Spatial Separation of Dialogue from Noise towards Improved Speech Intelligibility for the Small Screen

Demonte P, Tang Y, Hughes RJ, Cox T, Fazenda B, Shirley B. Speech-To-Screen: Spatial Separation of Dialogue from Noise towards Improved Speech Intelligibility for the Small Screen. In: AES Convention 144. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 10011. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19407

@inproceedings{Demonte2018_19407,
  author = {Demonte, Philippa and Tang, Yan and Hughes, Richard J. and Cox, Trevor and Fazenda, Bruno and Shirley, Ben},
  title = {{Speech-To-Screen: Spatial Separation of Dialogue from Noise towards Improved Speech Intelligibility for the Small Screen}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 144},
  note = {Paper 10011},
  year = {2018},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19407}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Speech-To-Screen: Spatial Separation of Dialogue from Noise towards Improved Speech Intelligibility for the Small Screen
AU  - Demonte, Philippa
AU  - Tang, Yan
AU  - Hughes, Richard J.
AU  - Cox, Trevor
AU  - Fazenda, Bruno
AU  - Shirley, Ben
T2  - AES Convention 144
M1  - Paper 10011
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19407
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - 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.
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