Speech intelligibility from image processing

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 736-752

  Hines, Andrew ^a   Harte, Naomi ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Auditory periphery model; Hearing aids; MSSIM; Sensorineural hearing loss; Speech intelligibility; Structural similarity

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVES; AUDITORY PERIPHERY MODEL; BOUNDEDNESS; CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DISCHARGE RATES; DYNAMIC RANGE; GRANULAR LEVELS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN SPEECH; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MODEL OUTPUTS; MSSIM; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PERCEPTUAL IMAGE QUALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; POINT TO POINT; PRESENTATION LEVEL; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SIMILARITY INDICES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; HEARING AIDS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 77953912665     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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