Evaluation of pitch estimation in noisy speech for application in non-intrusive speech quality assessment

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2514-2518

  Sharma, Dushyant ^a   Naylor, Patrick A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; NOISY SPEECH; NOISY SPEECH SIGNALS; NON-INTRUSIVE; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; NUMBER OF METHODS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY; PITCH ESTIMATION; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS; TEMPORAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; VOCAL FOLDS; VOICED SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ADDITIVE NOISE; ALGORITHMS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863749800     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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