Abstract:The aim of this study is to address the question of whether the Lombard effect, either natural (an involuntary tendency to raise the uttered speech level in the presence of background noise) or synthetically created, is a remedy for speech communication in noise. To this end, a series of experiments to examine the interference of different noises in synthesizing the Lombard effect is performed. Several steps are proposed; first, a recording session is carried out to prepare a dataset of speech with and without… Show more
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