Objective speech quality measurement using statistical data mining

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1410-1424

  Zha, Wei ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Data mining; Mean opinion scores; Regression; Speech perception; Speech quality

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TREES; MEAN OPINION SCORES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 27844458923     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1410     Document Type: Article

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