A cue for objective speech quality estimation in temporal envelope representations

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 849-852

  Kim, Doh Suk ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEMS; HUMAN SPEECH PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; MODULATION SPECTRUM; NONINTRUSIVE ESTIMATION; OBJECTIVE MODEL; OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY ESTIMATION; SPEECH QUALITY; TEMPORAL ENVELOPE REPRESENTATIONS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 4744344338     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2004.835466     Document Type: Article

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