An overview of subjective and objective quality measures for noisy speech enhancement algorithms

IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India)

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-301

  Krishnamoorthy, P ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Noisy speech; Objective quality; Speech enhancement; Subjective quality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY OF INFORMATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; LISTENING TESTS; NOISY SPEECH; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OBJECTIVE QUALITY; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY MEASURES;

ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 80052142366     PISSN: 02564602     EISSN: 09745971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4602.83550     Document Type: Article

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