Proposal of standards for intelligibility tests of Chinese speech

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 254-260

  Li, Z ^a   Tan, E C ^b   McLoughlin, I ^b   Teo, T T ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STANDARDS;

CHINESE DIAGNOSTIC RHYME TEST (CDRT); CHINESE MODIFIED RHYME TEST (CMRT);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0033691440     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20000189     Document Type: Article

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