Paper: Improving Speech Privacy in Personal Sound Zones

Presented at ICASSP 2016, we explore ways to improve speech privacy in multizone soundfield reproductions using intelligibility metrics, all while maintaining high speech quality.

Anechoic Results - Improving Speech Privacy in Personal Sound Zones
Multizone Soundfield Layout - Improving Speech Privacy in Personal Sound Zones

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The Speech Transmission Index (STI) for MATLAB

There are a few robust algorithms available to objectively measure the intelligibility of speech. They compare what is heard by a listener to the information that was transmitted by the talker, however, only one of these available algorithms works in reverberant rooms and at the time I was looking for an implementation for MATLAB, I couldn’t find any, zilch. So, I decided to code it from scratch myself and will show you how to do it step by step. Continue reading The Speech Transmission Index (STI) for MATLAB