A non-intrusive quality and intelligibility measure of reverberant and dereverberated speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1766-1774

  Falk, Tiago H ^a,b   Zheng, Chenxi ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coloration; dereverberation; modulation spectrum; quality diagnosis; reverberation

Indexed keywords

COLORATION; DEREVERBERATION; ENERGY RATIO; MODULATION SPECTRUM; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; NON-INTRUSIVE; QUALITY DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES;

MODULATION; REVERBERATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 77955707186     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2052247     Document Type: Article

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