Section: Application Domains

Aided Communication and Monitoring

Source separation techniques should help for locating and monitoring people through the detection of sound events inside apartments, and speech enhancement is mandatory for hands-free vocal interactions. A foreseen application aims at improving the autonomy of elderly or disabled people, and also fits with smartroom applications. In a longer perspective, adapting speech recognition technologies to the voice of elderly people should also be useful for such applications, but this requires the recording of adequate databases. Sound monitoring in other application fields (security, environmental monitoring) can also be envisaged.