@inproceedings{parra-2024-noise,
    title = "Noise Be Gone: Does Speech Enhancement Distort Linguistic Nuances?",
    author = "Parra, I{\~n}igo",
    editor = "Serikov, Oleg  and
      Voloshina, Ekaterina  and
      Postnikova, Anna  and
      Muradoglu, Saliha  and
      Le Ferrand, Eric  and
      Klyachko, Elena  and
      Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Shavrina, Tatiana  and
      Tyers, Francis",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2024)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.fieldmatters-1.7/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.fieldmatters-1.7",
    pages = "52--60",
    abstract = "This study evaluates the impact of speech enhancement (SE) techniques on linguistic research, focusing on their ability to maintain essential acoustic characteristics in enhanced audio without introducing significant artifacts. Through a sociophonetic analysis of Peninsular and Peruvian Spanish speakers, using both original and enhanced recordings, we demonstrate that SE effectively preserves critical speech nuances such as voicing and vowel quality. This supports the use of SE in improving the quality of speech samples. This study marks an initial effort to assess SE`s reliability in language studies and proposes a methodology for enhancing low-quality audio corpora of under-resourced languages."
}