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doi:10.22028/D291-38643
Title: | Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors |
Author(s): | Chingacham, Anupama Demberg, Vera Klakow, Dietrich |
Language: | English |
Publisher/Platform: | arXiv |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
DDC notations: | 400 Language, linguistics |
Publikation type: | Other |
Abstract: | Listening in noisy environments can be difficult even for individuals with a normal hearing thresholds. The speech signal can be masked by noise, which may lead to word misperceptions on the side of the listener, and overall difficulty to understand the message. To mitigate hearing difficulties on listeners, a co-operative speaker utilizes voice modulation strategies like Lombard speech to generate noise-robust utterances, and similar solutions have been developed for speech synthesis systems. In this work, we propose an alternate solution of choosing noise-robust lexical paraphrases to represent an intended meaning. Our results show that lexical paraphrases differ in their intelligibility in noise. We evaluate the intelligibility of synonyms in context and find that choosing a lexical unit that is less risky to be misheard than its synonym introduced an average gain in comprehension of 37% at SNR -5 dB and 21% at SNR 0 dB for babble noise. |
URL of the first publication: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08337 |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-386431 hdl:20.500.11880/34839 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38643 |
Date of registration: | 3-Jan-2023 |
Notes: | Preprint |
Faculty: | MI - Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | MI - Informatik P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
Professorship: | MI - Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg P - Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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