Audio and Electroacoustics Technical Committee
Special Issue Announcement:
Special Issue on Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Scope:
This is a call for papers for a special issue on “Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications” to be published in mid 2010 in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. This special issue will focus on the recent trends in techniques designed to handle reverberant speech directed at both humans and computers, including speech dereverberation and automatic speech recognition (ASR) in reverberant environments. When a speech signal is captured by a distant microphone in a room, reverberation components are detrimental to the quality of the observed speech and often cause serious degradation in various speech processing applications, including speech recognition, teleconferencing, hearing aids, human-computer dialogue systems, and meeting recordings. To extend the applicability of such systems in real acoustical environments, researchers have been tackling the reverberation problem, and useful techniques have recently been reported in a variety of technological areas.