Dr Simone Graetzer S.N.Graetzer@salford.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Dr Simone Graetzer S.N.Graetzer@salford.ac.uk
Research Fellow
J Barker
Prof Trevor Cox T.J.Cox@salford.ac.uk
Professor
M Akeroyd
JF Culling
G Naylor
E Porter
R Viveros Munoz
In recent years, rapid advances in speech technology have been made possible by machine learning challenges such as CHiME, REVERB, Blizzard, and Hurricane. In the Clarity project, the machine learning approach is applied to the problem of hearing aid processing of speech-in-noise, where current technology in enhancing the speech signal for the hearing aid wearer is often ineffective. The scenario is a (simulated) cuboid-shaped living room in which there is a single listener, a single target speaker and a
single interferer, which is either a competing talker or domestic noise. All sources are static, the target is always within ±30◦ azimuth of the listener and at the same elevation, and the interferer is an omnidirectional point source at the same elevation. The target speech comes from an open source 40- speaker British English speech database collected for this purpose. This paper provides a baseline description of the round one Clarity challenges for both enhancement (CEC1) and prediction (CPC1). To the authors’ knowledge, these are the first machine learning challenges to consider the problem of hearing aid speech signal processing
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (published) |
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Conference Name | Interspeech 2021 |
Start Date | Aug 30, 2023 |
End Date | Sep 3, 2021 |
Acceptance Date | Jun 2, 2021 |
Publication Date | Sep 3, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Nov 26, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 26, 2021 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
Print ISSN | 2308-457X |
Volume | 2 |
Pages | 686-690 |
Book Title | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
ISBN | 9781713836902 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1574 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1574 |
Related Public URLs | https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021 https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/conferences |
Additional Information | Access Information : Data relating to this paper can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.16918180 Event Type : Conference |
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