3 accepted papers
Contemporary text-to-speech solutions for accessibility applications can typically be classified into two categories: (i) device-based statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) or unit selection (USEL) and (ii) cloud-based neural TTS. SPSS and USEL offer low latency and low disk footprint at th…
Reverberation degrades signal quality and increases word error rates in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Reverberation suppression is, thus, a key component in listening enhancement devices and ASR front end. The weighted prediction error (WPE) is a prominent and effective method that gained popu…
Moderate and severe reverberation reduce speech intelligibility as a result of the overlap-masking effect, which constitutes the simultaneous observation of multiple delayed and attenuated copies of the speech signal. Recent progress has been made in ameliorating the degradation in intelligibility b…