Modeling binaural speech understanding in complex situations

M Lavandier, V Best - The technology of binaural understanding, 2020 - Springer
This chapter reviews binaural models available to predict speech intelligibility for different
kinds of interference and in the presence of reverberation. A particular effort is made to …

A series of SNR-based speech intelligibility models in the Auditory Modeling Toolbox

M Lavandier, T Vicente… - Acta Acustica, 2022 - acta-acustica.edpsciences.org
This technical paper presents a series of speech intelligibility models that have been
developed since the original version proposed by Lavandier and Culling [(2010). Journal of …

[HTML][HTML] Speech intelligibility in virtual restaurants

JF Culling - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) for a target voice on the same virtual table were
measured in various restaurant simulations under conditions of masking by between one …

An introduction to binaural processing

A Kohlrausch, J Braasch, D Kolossa… - The technology of binaural …, 2013 - Springer
The binaural auditory system performs a number of astonishing functions, such as precise
localization of sound sources, analysis of auditory scenes, segregation of auditory streams …

Factors affecting auditory estimates of virtual room size: Effects of stimulus, level, and reverberation

AJ Kolarik, BCJ Moore, S Cirstea… - …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
When vision is unavailable, auditory level and reverberation cues provide important spatial
information regarding the environment, such as the size of a room. We investigated how …

Evaluation of a method for enhancing interaural level differences at low frequencies

BCJ Moore, A Kolarik, MA Stone… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A method (called binaural enhancement) for enhancing interaural level differences at low
frequencies, based on estimates of interaural time differences, was developed and …

Further evaluation of the binaural loudness ratio to predict speech intelligibility in vehicles and rooms

N Samardzic, M Lavandier - Applied Acoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
This study compared the predictions of speech reception threshold (SRT) across conditions
involving spatially distributed speech and noise in a vehicle and in a room, obtained with …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of ambisonic order on spatial release from masking

JF Culling, AO Akrofi, SR Dighton - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In two experiments, spatial release from masking (SRM) was measured using an ambisonic
reproduction system for a range of different ambisonic orders. The first experiment used …

The Utilization of Psychometric Functions to Predict Speech Intelligibility in Vehicles

N Samardzic, M Lavandier, Y Shen - SAE International Journal of Vehicle …, 2023 - sae.org
In this study, a novel assessment approach of in-vehicle speech intelligibility is presented
using psychometric curves. Speech recognition performance scores were modeled at an …

Segmentation of binaural room impulse responses for speech intelligibility prediction

O Kokabi, F Brinkmann, S Weinzierl - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The two most important aspects in binaural speech perception—better-ear-listening and
spatial-release-from-masking—can be predicted well with current binaural modeling …