An evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of time-frequency weighted noisy speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3013-3027

  Taal, Cees H ^a   Hendriks, Richard C ^a   Heusdens, Richard ^a   Jensen, Jesper ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOISY SPEECH; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SINGLE-CHANNEL; TIME FREQUENCY;

QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81355153924     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3641373     Document Type: Article

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