Perceptual speech quality assessment - A review

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Rix, Antony W ^a  

^a Fraser House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ABSOLUTE CATEGORY RATING (ACR); DIAGNOSTIC ACCEPTABILITY MEASURE (DAM); LISTENING QUALITY (LQ); ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RMSE); SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 4544334521     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (30)

1. th edition, Academic Press, 1997.
2. Methods for subjective determination of transmission quality. ITU-T Rec. P.800, Aug. 1996.
3. Quackenbush, S. R., Barnwell III, T. P., Clements, M. A. Objective measures of speech quality. Prentice Hall, 1988.
4. Methods for the subjective assessment of small impairments in audio systems including multichannel sound systems. ITU-R Rec. BS.1116, July 1998.
5. The E-model, a computational model for use in transmission planning. ITU-T Rec. G.107, July 2002.
6. Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), an objective method for end-to-end speech quality assessment of narrow-band telephone networks and speech codecs. ITU-T Rec. P.862, Feb. 2001.
7. Berger, J. "Report of the Rapporteur's Meeting in Berlin, 25-28 June 2003." ITU-T COM12-C58, July 2003.
8. Objective quality measurement of telephone-band (300-3400 Hz) speech codecs. ITU-T Rec. P.861, Feb. 1998.
9. Voran, S. Objective estimation of perceived speech quality - part I: development of the measuring normalizing block technique. IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, 7 (4), 371-382, July 1999.
10. Schroeder, M. R., Atal, B. S. and Hall, J. L. Optimizing digital speech coders by exploiting masking properties of the human ear. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66 (6), 1647-1652, 1979.
11. nd AES Convention, London, preprint 2433, March 1987.
12. Karjalainen M. A new auditory model for the evaluation of sound quality of audio system. IEEE ICASSP, Tampa, Florida, 608-611, March 1985.
13. Wang, S., Sekey, A. and Gersho, A. An objective measure for predicting subjective quality of speech coders. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, 10 (5), 819-829, 1992.
14. Hollier, M. P., Hawksford, M. O. and Guard, D. R. Error activity and error entropy as a measure of psychoacoustic significance in the perceptual domain. IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 141 (3), 203-208, 1994.
15. Beerends, J. G. and Stemerdink, J. A. A perceptual audio quality measure based on a psychoacoustic sound representation. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 40 (12), 963-974, Dec. 1992.
16. Paillard, B., Mabilleau, P., Morisette, S. and Soumagne, J. PERCEVAL: perceptual evaluation of the quality of audio signals. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 40 (1/2), 21-31, Jan. 1992.
17. Colomes C., Lever M., Rault J.B. and Dehery Y.F. A perceptual model applied to audio bit-rate reduction. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 43 (4), 233-240, April 1995.
18. th AES Convention, Copenhagen, preprint 4280, May 1996.
19. rd AES Convention, New York, preprint 4512, Oct. 1997.
20. Method for objective measurements of perceived audio quality. ITU-R Rec. BS.1387, Jan. 1999.
21. Beerends, J. G. and Stemerdink, J. A. A perceptual speech-quality measure based on a psychoacoustic sound representation. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 42 (3), 115-123, March 1994.
22. Berger, J. TOSQA - Telecommunication objective speech quality assessment, ITU-T COM12-34, Dec. 1997.
23. Rix, A. W. and Hollier, M. P. The perceptual analysis measurement system for robust end-to-end speech quality assessment. IEEE ICASSP, Vol. 3, 1515-1518, June 2000.
24. Analysis and interpretation of INMD voice-service measurements. ITU-T Rec. P.562, May 2000.
25. Clark, A. "Description of VQmon algorithm." ITU-T COM12-D105, Jan. 2003.
26. Broom, S. "High Level Description of Psytechnics ITU-T P.VTQ candidate." ITU-T COM12-D175, Sept. 2003.
27. Barriac, V. "Status report of P.VTQ model selection." ITU-T COM12-D166, Sept. 2003.
28. Gray, P., Hollier, M. P. and Massara, R. Non-intrusive speech quality assessment using vocal-tract models. IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 147 (6), 493-501, Dec. 2000.
29. Beerends, J. G., Gray, P., Hekstra, A. P. and Hollier, M. P. "Call for proposals for a single-ended speech quality measurement method for non-intrusive measurements on live voice traffic." ITU-T COM12-C11, Nov. 2000.
30. Kim, D.-S. "ANIQUE: Lucent Technologies' candidate algorithm for ITU-T single-ended speech quality assessment model." ITU-T COM12-D181, Sept. 2003.