Speech Separation by Humans and Machines

345 Pages·2005·11.812 MB·English

by  Pierre Divenyi

SPEECH SEPARATION BY HUMANS
AND MACHINES
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SPEECH SEPARATION BY HUMANS
AND MACHINES
Edited by
Pierre Divenyi
East Bay Institute for Research and Education
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Contents
List of Contributors xi
Foreword xv
Al Bregman
Preface xix
Pierre Divenyi
Speech Segregation: Problems and Perspectives 1
Chris Darwin
Auditory Scene Analysis: Examining the Role of Nonlinguistic Audito-
ry Processing in Speech Perception 5
Elyse S. Sussman
Speech Separation: Further Insights from Recordings of Event-related
Brain Potentials in Humans 13
Claude Alain
Recurrent Timing Nets for F0-based Speaker Separation 31
Peter Cariani
Blind Source Separation Using Graphical Models 55
Te-Won Lee
Speech Recognizer Based Maximum Likelihood Beamforming 65
Bhiksha Raj, Michael Seltzer, and Manuel Jesus Reyes-gomez
Exploiting Redundancy to Construct Listening Systems 83
Paris Smaragdis
Automatic Speech Processing by Inference in Generative Models 97
Sam T. Roweis
viii Speech Separation
Signal Separation Motivated by Human Auditory Perception: Applica-
tions to Automatic Speech Recognition 135
Richard M. Stern
Speech Segregation Using an Event-synchronous Auditory Image and
STRAIGHT 155
Toshio Irino, Roy D. Patterson, and Hideki Kawakhara
Underlying Principles of a High-quality Speech Manipulation System
STRAIGHT and Its Application to Speech Segregation 167
Hideki Kawahara and Toshio Irino
On Ideal Binary Mask as the Computational Goal of Auditory Scene
Analysis 181
Deliang Wang
The History and Future of CASA 199
Malcolm Slaney
Techniques For Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy and Reverberant
Conditions 213
Guy J. Brown and Kalle J. Palomäki
Source Separation, Localization, and Comprehension in Humans, Ma-
chines, and Human-machine Systems 221
Nat Durlach
The Cancellation Principle in Acoustic Scene Analysis 245
Alain De Cheveigné
Informational and Energetic Masking Effects in Multitalker Speech Per-
ception 261
Douglas S. Brungart
Masking the Feature Information in Multi-stream Speech-analogue Dis-
plays 269
Pierre L. Divenyi