A methodology for improving PESQ accuracy for Chinese speech

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Chong, Fong Loong ^a   McLoughlin, Ian V ^b   Pawlikowski, Krzysztof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Group Research   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONSONANTS; PHONETIC STRUCTURE; SPEECH QUALITY; VOWELS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249288642     PISSN: 21593442     EISSN: 21593450     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2005.301105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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