Evaluation of objective quality measures for speech enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 229-238

  Hu, Yi ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Objective measures; Speech enhancement; Speech quality assessment; Subjective listening tests

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; MODEL-BASED; NOISE DISTORTIONS; NOISE SUPPRESSION ALGORITHMS; NOISY SPEECH; NON-PARAMETRIC; OBJECTIVE MEASURES; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; OVERALL QUALITIES; PARAMETRIC REGRESSIONS; REAL-WORLD NOISE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TESTS; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY RATINGS; SUBJECTIVE RATING SCALE; THREE DIMENSIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 44149106061     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.911054     Document Type: Article

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