Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Informatics

A Sound Masking Signal Generation Method Based on Chinese Pronunciation Characteristics

Authors
Xiaofeng Ma, Peng Zhang, Qiuyun Hao, Xiaoxia Chen, Yanhong Fan, Jingsai Jiang, Ye Li
Corresponding Author
Xiaofeng Ma
Available Online April 2015.
DOI
10.2991/ameii-15.2015.186How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Sound masking; Speech privacy; Chinese pronunciation characteristics
Abstract

Sound masking is a technique to protect the speech privacy of confidential talks in a room. Most of the existing masking signals sometimes become noise sources, and result in a negative impact on the people in the room. This paper proposes a new method for generating masking signals. The synthesis of the new masking signal is based on Chinese pronunciation characteristics and the statistical properties. Since its statistical properties are similar to those of human’s voice, the proposed method is more difficult to be deciphered, and can improve the masking effect and reduce the impact on people's psychology and physiology.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Informatics
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
April 2015
ISBN
978-94-62520-69-1
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/ameii-15.2015.186How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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