Assessment and modelling of human speech intelligibility and listening effort (A01)

• Subject Area: Acoustics
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 352015383

In many situations human speech communication is considerably affected due to hearing impairment and interfering sounds. This project will assess speech intelligibility and listening effort in complex sound scenes and will compare the perceptual data to model predictions for evaluating sound presentation and speech enhancement methods developed in the CRC. Prediction models will be extended to supra-threshold factors affecting listening effort and will be revised to work non-intrusively (enabling processing mixed and enhanced signals). Furthermore real-time models will be developed allowing for direct feedback of temporally resolved model predictions to adaptive speech enhancement algorithms enabling in-the-loop applications.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1330: Hearing acoustics: Perceptual principles, Algorithms and Applications (HAPPAA)
• Applicant Institution: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
• Project Heads: Privatdozent Dr. Thomas Brand; Dr. Jan Rennies-Hochmuth