Publications
Current Publications
2012).
Mask estimation and imputation methods for missing data speech recognition in multisource reverberant environments.
Computer Speech and Language,
in press.
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2012).
Perceptual compensation for the effects of reverberation on consonant identification: A comparison of human and machine performance.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2012,
Portland, Oregon, in press.
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2011).
Temporal-envelope constancy of speech in rooms and the perceptual weighting of frequency bands.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
130 (5), pp. 2777-2788.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Watkins_Raimond_Makin_JASA2011.pdf
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2011).
Low-level and high-level models of perceptual compensation for reverberation.
Poster presented at Computational Audition workshop, Delmenhorst, Germany, Oct., 24-26.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Poster_BSA_September2010_human.pdf
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2011).
Compensation for the effects of reverberation on automatic speech recognition: a perceptually-inspired approach based on weighting of parallel acoustic models.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology Annual Conference, Nottingham, Sept., 7-9.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/brown-bsa11.pdf
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2011).
A computational model of binaural speech recognition: role of across-frequency vs. within-frequency processing and internal noise.
Speech Communication,
53 (6), pp. 924-940.
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2011).
Cross-frequency effects on loudness asymmetry in real-room reverberation.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology Annual Conference, Nottingham, Sept., 7-9.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Raimond_NottinghamBSA2011_Final.pdf
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2011).
The dominance of ILD cues when tracking talkers in real-room reverberation.
Poster presented at First International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linkoping, Sweden, June 19-22.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Makin_Linkoping_2011.pdf
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2011).
Room reflections, speech identification and the perceptual weighting of frequency bands.
Poster presented at First International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linkoping, Sweden, June 19-22.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/watkins Linkoping 2010.pdf
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2012).
Mask estimation and sparse imputation for missing data speech recognition in a multisource reverberant environments.
CHiME International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments,
Florence, Italy, 1st September.
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2010).
Constancy in the perception of speech when the level of room-reflections varies.
In Buchholz, J., Dau, T., Dalsgaard, J. and Poulsen, T. (eds.) Binaural processing and spatial hearing. ISAAR - International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research. The Danavox Jubilee Foundation, Ballerup, Denmark,
pp 371-380. ISBN 8799001322.
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2010).
A computer model of auditory efferent suppression: Implications for the coding of speech in noise.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
127 (2), pp. 943-954.
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2010).
Perceptual compensation for effects of reverberation in speech identification: A computer model based on auditory efferent processing.
Interspeech, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan. Proceedings,
pp 2462-2465.
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2010).
Perceptual compensation for reverberation: human identification of stop consonants in reverberated speech contexts.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology Annual Conference, Manchester. Programme and Abstracts, pp 109-110.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Poster_BSA_September2010_human.pdf
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2010).
A computer model of perceptual compensation for reverberation: evaluation on a consonant identification task.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology Annual Conference, Manchester. Programme and Abstracts, pp 108-109.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Poster_BSA_September2010_machine.pdf
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2010).
Perceptual compensation for adverse effects of room reverberation on speech recognition: A model based on auditory efferent processing.
Poster presented at Psycholinguistic approaches to speech recognition in adverse conditions, Bristol, 8-10th March 2010.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/BeestonBrown_Bristol2010.pdf
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2009).
Perceptual constancy, reverberation, and grouping: Within-band effects.
Poster presented at Acoustical Society of America meeting, San Antonio, Oct. 26-30th.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/watkins_ASA_09_awOK.pdf
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2009).
Spectral- and temporal-envelope room-acoustic cues in attentional tracking.
Poster presented at Acoustical Society of America meeting, San Antonio, Oct. 26-30th.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Spectral-_and_temporal-envelope_room-acoustic_cues_in_attentional_tracking_ASA_v10.pdf
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2009).
A computer model of perceptual compensation for reverberation based on auditory efferent suppression.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology short papers meeting, Southampton, Sept. 17-18th.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Poster_BSA_September2009.pdf
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2009).
Room reflections, perceptual grouping and constancy in speech-like sounds.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology short papers meeting, Southampton, Sept. 17-18th.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/watkins_BSA_09_Room_reflections_NEW_awOK.pdf
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2009).
Monaural and dichotic effects of real-room reverberation on loudness perception.
Poster presented at British Society of Audiology short papers meeting, Southampton, Sept. 17-18th.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/Raimond_Watkins_BSA_2009_v4.pdf
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2009).
Room reflections and constancy in speech-like sounds: Within-band effects.
In Lopez-Poveda E, Palmer A, Meddis R, (eds.) Auditory Physiology, Perception and Models, Springer, NY. ISH - 15th International Symposium on Hearing, Salamanca, Spain, June, 1-5th.
ISBN 1441956859.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/watkins_ish2009_with_figs.pdf
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2009).
A computer model of perceptual compensation for reverberation.
Poster. In PhD Workshop: Professional Opportunities for Hearing Scientists,
Programme and Abstracts, pp. 20-21.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/beeston_brown_ihr_09.pdf
(Some relevant recent work
2008).
Room-acoustic factors in attentional tracking.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
123, pp. 2976-2977.
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2008).
Effect of reverberation on loudness perception.
Acta Acustica united with Acustica,
94, S332.
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2007).
Perceptual compensation for reverberation in speech identification: Effects of single-band, multiple-band and wideband contexts.
Acta Acustica united with Acustica,
93, pp. 403-410.
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2007).
Steady-spectrum contexts and perceptual compensation for reverberation in speech identification.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
121 (1) pp. 257-266.
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2007).
Perceptual compensation for reverberation: Effects of 'noise-like' and 'tonal' contexts.
In Hearing - from basic research to applications B. Kollmeier, G. Klump, V. Hohmann, U Langemann, M. Mauermann, S. Uppenkamp, and J. Verhey. Springer Verlag, New York,
pp. 533-540.
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2006).
Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2006), Toulouse, 15th-19th May,
I, pp. 289-292.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/palomaki-icassp06.pdf
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2006).
Perceptual compensation for reverberation: Effects of noise-context bandwidth.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
120, pp. 3358.
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2005).
Perceptual compensation for effects of reverberation in speech identification.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
118 (1) pp. 249-262.
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2005).
Perceptual compensation for effects of echo and of reverberation on speech identification.
Acta Acustica united with Acustica,
91, pp. 892-901.
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2004).
A binaural processor for missing data speech recognition in the presence of noise and small-room reverberation.
Speech Communication,
43 (4) pp. 361-378.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/palomaki_brown_wang_spcomm_04.pdf
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2004).
Techniques for handling convolutional distortion with 'missing data' automatic speech recognition.
Speech Communication,
43 pp. 123-142.
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2004).
A missing data approach to robust automatic speech recognition in the presence of reverberation.
Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA-2004), Kyoto, 4th-9th April,
pp. 449-452.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/brown-palomaki-barker-ica04.pdf
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2004).
Techniques for robust speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions.
In Speech Separation by Humans and Machines, edited by P. Divenyi. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
pp. 213-220.
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2002).
Missing data speech recognition in reverberant conditions.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2002), Orlando, 13th-17th May,
pp. 65-68.
<pdf> | www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sxs04sjm/constancy/papers/palomaki_brown_barker_icassp_02.pdf
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