Objective intelligibility prediction of speech by combining correlation and distortion based techniques

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1225-1228

  Gomez, Angel M ^a,b   Schwerin, Belinda ^a   Paliwal, Kuldip ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Correlation based techniques; Objective measure; Spectral distance based techniques; Speech enhancement; Speech intelligibility assessment

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MEASUREMENT; CORRELATION-BASED TECHNIQUES; DISTANCE-BASED; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HUMAN LISTENERS; INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT; INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84865739738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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