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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF10203</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1999-10203</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Noisy Speech Intelligibility Enhancement</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Kazlauskas</surname><given-names>Kazys</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:kazlausk@ktl.mii.lt">kazlausk@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Akademijos 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1999</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>171</fpage><lpage>188</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year></date></history><abstract><p>This paper addresses the study of the speech intelligibility enhancement. The speech model, noise sources, perceptual aspects of speech, and performance evaluation are reviewed. The intelligibility enhancement system based on spectral subtraction technique is investigated. Spectral density estimation device based on the algorithm of smoothed periodograms is analysed. Determination of the silence intervals, efficiency of the silence intervals determination, and signal to noise ratio evaluation are discussed. Speech intelligibility enhancement device is described.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>noisy speech</kwd><kwd>intelligibility enhancement</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>