An Overview of the VUB Entry for the 2013 Hurricane Challenge
 
An Overview of the VUB Entry for the 2013 Hurricane Challenge 
 
Henk Brouckxon, Werner Verhelst
 
Abstract 

This paper describes the SINCoFETS entry for the Hurricane challenge [1], in which intelligibility enhancement algorithms for speech presentation in noise are compared. The proposed system combines noise-independent non-uniform time scaling and dynamics compression algorithms with noise dependent frequency equalization to improve the robustness of speech intelligibility against noise. The algorithms in the system are described and a short discussion of the results is given. [1] M. Cooke, C. Mayo, and C. Valentini-Botinhao, {"}Intelligibility enhancing speech modifications: the hurricane challenge{"}, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2013, 2013.