On the quality-assessment of reverberated speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 393-401

  De Lima, Amaro A ^a,b   Prego, Thiago De M ^b   Netto, Sergio L ^b   Lee, Bowon ^c   Said, Amir ^c   Schafer, Ronald W ^c   Kalker, Ton ^c   Fozunbal, Majid ^c  

^a CENTRO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA CELSO SUCKOW DA FONSECA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrusive approach; Reverberation assessment; Speech quality evaluation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FACTORS; ENERGY RATIO; INTRUSIVE APPROACH; REVERBERATION EFFECTS; REVERBERATION TIME; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH QUALITY EVALUATION; SPEECH SIGNALS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; QUALITY CONTROL;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84155167659     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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