ANKARA — "Project IMBAS," supported under the TÜBİTAK-ARDEB 1001 Program and set to bring fresh momentum to academic work in Türkiye in hearing sciences and architectural acoustics, has been launched together with the new Acoustics Laboratory established at the TOBB ETÜ Technology Center.
Clear perception of speech in noisy and reverberant environments is critically important for effective verbal communication, especially for individuals with hearing loss. Project IMBAS aims to examine, through a large-scale dataset, the resistance of different languages to acoustic "maskers" and their speech intelligibility.
Supported by TÜBİTAK (project no. 125M560), Project IMBAS is a comprehensive research project that broadly examines the intelligibility of speech in different languages. The project aims to investigate how various maskers that degrade speech signals affect different languages, and to build rich training datasets for Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms.
One of the project's key outputs is the creation of a high-accuracy training dataset that will enable speech-recognition technologies to work far more efficiently under different acoustic conditions.
One of the most concrete steps of this visionary project was the Acoustics Laboratory established at the TOBB ETÜ Technology Center. Focused on architectural acoustics and speech acoustics, this laboratory offers a modern infrastructure that will host scientific work in the field.
The project is led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kıvanç Kitapcı of the TOBB ETÜ Department of Architecture, with expert researchers from Ankara University and Ankara Medipol University (Assoc. Prof. Dr. İpek Pınar Uzun, Özge Selen Avcı Can and Öğütnaz Çoban) also taking part.
For more information, you can visit the project's website: akustik.etu.edu.tr
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