Single-ended speech quality measurement using machine learning methods

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1935-1947

  Falk, Tiago H ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mean opinion score (MOS); Objective quality measurement; Quality model; Single ended measurement; Speech communication; Speech distortions; Speech enhancement; Speech quality; Subjective quality

Indexed keywords

MEAN OPINION SCORE (MOS); OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASUREMENT; QUALITY MODEL; SINGLE-ENDED MEASUREMENT; SPEECH DISTORTIONS; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFIERS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOT LEARNING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34547533971     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883253     Document Type: Article

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