Sentence examples for increase intelligibility from inspiring English sources

The increased effort is often accompanied by increased length of speech segments to increase intelligibility.

A facial animation can also increase intelligibility of a telephone speech to people with hearing disabilities.

On-axis listening with directional microphones (i.e., with the head pointed at the signal source) has been shown to increase intelligibility relative to omnidirectional microphone listening (for a review, see Ricketts & Dittberner 2002).

The result: increased intelligibility within national borders [3], less comprehension across them [4].

Directional microphones have been amply included in hearing aids for over 25 years and have proved to significantly increase speech intelligibility in various noisy environments [7].

One of the most challenging problems found in the design of hearing aids is the reduction of undesired noise and interference signals to increase speech intelligibility without introducing audible distortions in the target speech.

We have tried to increase the intelligibility of the consensus process in which the protocol was developed by making the goals explicit and providing information on disagreements within the expert group (Text S1) [49].

In addition to the increase in intelligibility afforded by correct head orientation while using directional microphones, orientation of the head to a sound makes it easier to see cues such as lip movements that have been shown to aid speech detection (Grant & Seitz 2000; Grant 2001) as well as speech intelligibility (MacLeod & Summerfield 1987; Middelweerd & Plomp 1987).

This combination increases speech intelligibility without sounding artificial or creating an overly unnatural spectral balance".

These are, in order of increasing stringency, intelligibility, accessibility, and shareability.

Table 1 summarises the results; all models give significantly increased speech intelligibility over the audio-alone case, with the rule-based model yielding the highest intelligibility score.