Study of TV Sound Level Adjustment System for the Elderly with Speech Rate Conversion Function

Komori T, Imai A, Seiyama N, Takou R, Takagi T, Oikawa Y. Study of TV Sound Level Adjustment System for the Elderly with Speech Rate Conversion Function. In: AES Convention 137. Audio Engineering Society; 2014. Paper 9167. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17490

@inproceedings{Komori2014_17490,
  author = {Komori, Tomoyasu and Imai, Atsushi and Seiyama, Nobumasa and Takou, Reiko and Takagi, Tohru and Oikawa, Yasuhiro},
  title = {{Study of TV Sound Level Adjustment System for the Elderly with Speech Rate Conversion Function}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 137},
  note = {Paper 9167},
  year = {2014},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17490}
}

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TI  - Study of TV Sound Level Adjustment System for the Elderly with Speech Rate Conversion Function
AU  - Komori, Tomoyasu
AU  - Imai, Atsushi
AU  - Seiyama, Nobumasa
AU  - Takou, Reiko
AU  - Takagi, Tohru
AU  - Oikawa, Yasuhiro
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M1  - Paper 9167
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - Elderly viewers sometimes feel that background sound (music and sound effects) in TV programs is too loud, or that narration or speech is too fast to understand. That is why we have constructed a prototype system that compensates for both of these problems with sound on the receiver side. The results of evaluation experiments targeting elderly viewers showed that the use of this system could make it significantly easier to listen to TV sound. These results also showed that elderly viewers exhibit the "recruitment phenomenon." They tend to select processing with a slowed speech rate that is easy to hear.
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