Speech quality assessment for listening-room compensation

Proceedings of the AES International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-20

  Goetze, Stefan ^a   Albertin, Eugen ^a   Rennies, Jan ^a   Habets, Emanuël A P ^b   Kammeyer, Karl Dirk ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION ALGORITHM; DEREVERBERATION; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH TOPICS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPEECH SIGNALS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; RATING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79953823793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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