Centre for
Law
Enforcement
Audio
Research

Publications

2014

  • Hilkhuysen, G., Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., Huckvale, M., "Effects of noise suppression on intelligibility II: An attempt to validate physical metrics", J.Acoust.Soc.Am., 135 (1) 2014, pp439-50.

2013

  • Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., Naylor, P., "Blind Channel Magnitude Response Estimation in Speech using Spectrum Classification", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, in press.
  • Hilkhuysen, G., Gaubitch, N., Huckvale, M., "Effects of Noise Suppression on Intelligibility: Experts' Opinions and Naïve Normal-Hearing Listeners' Performance, J Speech Lang Hear Res, Apr 2013; 56: 404 - 415.
  • Hilkhuysen, G., Huckvale, M., "Can physical metrics identify noise reduction settings that optimize intelligibility?. ICA 2013 Montreal Montreal, Canada 2 - 7 June 2013. Download PDF

2012

  • Hilkhuysen, G., Lloyd, J., Huckvale, M., "Effects of replay on the intelligibility of noisy speech", Proc. 46th AES Conference on Audio Forensics, Denver Colorado, 2012, pp50-56. Download PDF
  • Sharma, D., Naylor, P., Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., "Non intrusive CODEC detection algorithm", in Proc IEEE Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Kyoto, 2012. View abstract.
  • Hilkhuysen, G., Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., Huckvale, M., "Effects of noise suppression on intelligibility: Dependency on signal-to-noise ratios", J.Acoust.Soc.Am. 131 (2012) 531-539. View abstract.
  • Gaubitch, N, Löllmann, H., Jeub, M., Falk, T., Naylor, P., Vary, P., Brookes, M., "Performance comparison of algorithms for blind reverberation time estimation from speech", Proc. Intl. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany, Sep. 2012.
  • Sharma, D., Hilkhuysen, G., Naylor, P., Gaubitch, N., Huckvale, M., Brookes, M., "Descriptive vocabulary development for degraded speech", in Proc. Interspeech Conf., Portland, Sep. 2012.
  • Gonzalez, S., Brookes, M., "Sibilant speech detection in noise", in Proc. Interspeech Conf., Portland, Sep. 2012.

2011

  • Sharma, D., Naylor, P., Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., "Short-time objective assessment of speech quality", Proceedings 19th European Signal Processing conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona. Download PDF
  • Bai, J., Brookes, M., "Adaptive Hidden Markov Models for Noise Modelling", Proceedings 19th European Signal Processing conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona. Download PDF
  • Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., Naylor, P., Sharma, D., "Single-Microphone Blind Channel Identification in Spech using Spectrum Classification",Proceedings 19th European Signal Processing conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona. Download PDF
  • Gonzalez, S., Brookes, M., "A Pitch Estimation Filter Robust to High Levels of Noise (PEFAC)", Proceedings 19th European Signal Processing conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona. Download PDF

2010

  • Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., Naylor, P. & Sharma, D., "Bayesian adaptive method for estimating speech intelligibility in noise", AES Conference on Audio Forensics, Copenhagen Denmark, June 2010. Download PDF
  • Hilkhuysen, G. & Huckvale, M., "Adjusting a commercial speech enhancement system to optimize intelligibility", AES Conference on Audio Forensics, Copenhagen Denmark, June 2010. Download PDF
  • Huckvale, M., & Frasi, D., "Measuring the effect of noise reduction on listening effort", AES Conference on Audio Forensics, Copenhagen Denmark, June 2010,. Download PDF
  • Sharma, D., Hilkhuysen, G., Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M. & Naylor, P., "C-Qual - a validation of PESQ using degradations encountered in forensic and law enforcement audio", AES Conference on Audio Forensics, Copenhagen Denmark, June 2010. Download PDF
  • Hilkhuysen, G. & Huckvale, M., "Signal properties reducing intelligibility of speech after noise reduction", European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO), Aalborg Denmark, August 2010. Download PDF
  • Sharma, D., Hilkhuysen, G., Gaubitch, N., Naylor P., Brookes, M., & Huckvale, M., "Data driven method for non intrusive speech intelligibility estimation" in Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Aalborg Denmark, August 2010. Download PDF
  • Huckvale, M., Hilkhuysen, G., & Frasi, D., "Performance-based Measurement of Speech Quality with an Audio Proof-reading Task", 3rd ISCA Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems, Dresden Germany, September 2010. Download PDF
  • Naylor, P., Gaubitch, N., Sharma, D., Hilkhuysen, G., Huckvale, M., & Brookes, M., "Intelligibility Estimation in Law Enforcement Speech Processing", 9th ITG conference on Speech Communication, Bochum Germany, October 2010. Download PDF

2009

  • Gaubitch, N., Brookes, M., & Naylor, P., "Blind channel identification in speech using the long-term average speech spectrum", Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Glasgow U.K., August 2009. Download PDF
  • Sharma, D., & Naylor, P., "Evaluation of pitch estimation in noisy speech for application in non-intrusive speech quality assessment", Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Glasgow U.K., August 2009. Download PDF
  • Huckvale, M., & Leak, J. "The effect of noise reduction on reaction time to speech in noise", Interspeech 2009 conference, Brighton, U.K., September 2009. Download PDF

Reports

  • Mike Brookes, Nick Gaubitch, Mark Huckvale, Patrick Naylor, Speech Cleaning Literature Review, May 2008. Download PDF.

Books

Speech Dereverberation (Signals and Communication Technology)

Patrick A. Naylor & Nikolay D. Gaubitch (Editors)

ISBN:1849960550, Springer 2010.

Unpublished Talks

  • Huckvale, M., "Measurement, modelling and enhancement of the intelligibility of speech in noise at the Centre for Law-Enforcement Audio Research", 46th AES Conference on Audio Forensics, Denver, CO, June 2012. Download PDF
  • Huckvale, M., & Frasi, D., "Performance-Based Measures of Speech Quality", 2ndWorkshop on Intelligibility and Quality of Speech in Noise, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2010. Download PDF
  • Huckvale, M., "Measuring the impact of signal enhancement on the quality of noisy speech", Danish ASIP-NET Seminar on Sound Quality, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2010. >Download PDF
  • Brookes, M., & Huckvale, M., "Can binary masks improve intelligibility?", 3rdWorkshop on Intelligibility and Quality of Speech in Noise, Lyon, France, January 2011. Download PDF