What is it about?
We speak as a function of how we hear ourselves and everything around us. Occluding the ear canal with an intra-aural device, like a hearing protection device, affects how we speak. This paper models these changes in the presence of varying levels of noise and communication distance.
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Why is it important?
The changes in speech production caused by occluding the ear have a detrimental effect on communication for occluded talkers. With the rapid rise in wearable technology, including hearables (the intra-aural wearables), modeling speech production for the occluded talker is important for the advancement of this technology and the improvement of communication.
Perspectives
I hope this article will help people better understand these changes in speech production caused by changes to the audio-phonation loop. The goal is to get people working in speech technologies to take into account these changes as they develop, train and test their speech algorithms.
Rachel Bouserhal
Ecole de technologie superieure
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This page is a summary of: Modeling Speech Level as a Function of Background Noise Level and Talker-to-Listener Distance for Talkers Wearing Hearing Protection Devices, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2017_jslhr-s-17-0052.
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