A neural network model for speech intelligibility quantification

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-155

  Li, Francis F ^a   Cox, Trevor J ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Blind system identification; Intelligibility; Principal component analysis; Speech envelope; Speech transmission index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BLIND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION; INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH ENVELOPE; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33750951919     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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