Mitigating Information Interruptions by COVID-19 Face Masks: A Three-Stage Speech Enhancement Scheme

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computational social systems Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 4790 - 4799
• Main Authors: Dash, Tusar Kanti, Chakraborty, Chinmay, Mahapatra, Satyajit, Panda, Ganapati
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.08.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Coronaviruses; COVID-19; face mask; Face recognition; Faces; Feature extraction; Frequencies; gray wolf optimizer (GWO); information interruptions; Masks; Neural networks; Noise measurement; Parameter modification; Q-factor; Radial basis function; Signal quality; Signal to noise ratio; Speech; Speech enhancement; speech enhancement (SE); Speech processing; Speech recognition; Subtraction; tunable Q-factor wavelet transform (TQWT); Viral diseases; Voice communication; Wavelet transforms

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preventive measures have resulted in significant lifestyle changes. One of the COVID-19 new normal is the usage of face masks for protection against airborne aerosol which creates distractions and interruptions in voice communication. It has a different influe...