@inproceedings{e92663b78d1c4ae690b93e4898f31fd3,
title = "Listen with your skin : Aerotak speech perception enhancement system",
abstract = "![CDATA[Here we introduce Aerotak: A system for audio analysis and perception enhancement that allows speech perceivers to listen with their skin. The current system extracts unvoiced portions of an audio signal representative of turbulent air-flow in speech. It stores the audio signal in the left channel of a stereo audio output, and the air flow signal is stored in the right channel. The stored audio is used to drive a conversion unit that splits the left audio channel into a headphone out (to both ears) and right channel air pump drive signal to a piezoelectric pump that is mounted to the headphones. We have shown, using two-way forced-choice experiments, that the system enhances perception of voiceless stops and voiceless fricatives in noise such that 1 out of every 4 such words that would otherwise be missed will be heard correctly. We are currently conducting experiments on word identification while listening to a short-story, and are completing a stand-alone version of the Aerotak that works with real-time audio and from an embedded system. The short-story research and real-time system will be complete for InterSpeech 2014.]]",
keywords = "speech communication, speech perception",
author = "Donald Derrick and Rybel, {Tom de} and O'beirne, {Greg A.} and Jennifer Hay",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
publisher = "International Speech and Communication Association",
pages = "1484--1485",
booktitle = "Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014",
note = "International Speech Communication Association. Conference ; Conference date: 14-09-2014",
}