More recently, it has become clear that musical training facilitates the rehabilitation of patients recovering from stroke and other forms of brain damage, and some researchers now argue that it might also boost speech processing and learning in children with dyslexia and other language impairments.
This is because subtitles in the language of the film indicate which words are being spoken, and so can boost speech learning about foreign speech sounds.
Such same-language subtitles indicate which words are being spoken, and so, via the lexically-guided retuning mechanism, they can boost speech learning and hence facilitate language understanding.
In the previous section (and [2]) we have applied boosting to speech recognition at the phoneme level.
Use of the noise estimation update controller ϕ(n) prevents noise estimation during speech and thus eliminates the problem of speech boosting gain reduction during intense continuous speech.
During intense continuous speech, the noise-level estimate B k (n) will increase and cause reduction of the speech boosting gain, see (3).
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