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Reduction of subjective listening effort for TV broadcast signals with recurrent neural networks

Westhausen et al., 2021

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3502308348572622070
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Westhausen N
Huber R
Baumgartner H
Sinha R
Rennies J
Meyer B
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

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Listening to the audio of TV broadcast signals can be challenging for hearing-impaired as well as normal-hearing listeners, especially when background sounds are prominent or too loud compared to the speech signal. This can result in a reduced satisfaction and increased …
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