ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993

Divers' speech: variable encoding strategies

Alain Marchal, Christine Meunier

In subaquatic and hypeibaric communication, several causes of distorsion have been identified: physical effects related to gas density and increased ambiant pressure. The present study investigates an other source of variation, i.e. the speaker himself who tends to adopt also specific strategies to compensate for the loss of intelligibility.