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Development of speech technologies to support hearing through mobile terminal users

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Taro Togawa, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan, Takeshi Otani, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan, otani.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com , Kaori Suzuki, Fujitsu Limited, Japan, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
 
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Taro Togawa, Takeshi Otani, Kaori Suzuki and Tomohiko Taniguchi (2015), "Development of speech technologies to support hearing through mobile terminal users", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 4: No. 1, e14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2015.3

Publication Date: 12 Oct 2015
© 2015 Taro Togawa, Takeshi Otani, Kaori Suzuki and Tomohiko Taniguchi
 
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Voice enhancementSpeech rate conversionSpeech quality controlHearing compensation
 

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In this article:
I. INTRODUCTION 
II. VOICE ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGY 
III. SPEECH RATE CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES 
IV. IMPLEMENTATION OF ALGORITHMS OF DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGIES ON MOBILE TERMINALS 
V. OTHER VOICE-QUALITY-IMPROVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES 
VI. CONCLUSION 

Abstract

Mobile terminals have become the most familiar communication tool we use, and various types of people have come to use mobile terminals in various environments. Accordingly, situations in which we talk over the telephone in noisy environments or with someone who speaks fast have increased. However, it is sometimes difficult to hear a person's voice in these cases. To make the voice received through mobile terminals easy to hear, authors have developed two technologies. One is a voice enhancement technology that emphasizes a caller's voice according to the noise surrounding the recipient, and the other is a speech rate conversion technology that slows speech while maintaining voice quality. In this paper, we explain the trends and the features of these technologies and discuss ways to implement their algorithms on mobile terminals.

DOI:10.1017/ATSIP.2015.3