Assessment of objective quality measures for speech intelligibility

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 699-702

  Liu, W M ^a   Jellyman, K A ^a   Evans, N W D ^a,b   Mason, J S D ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Intelligibility; Quality measures

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGIBILITY; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUALITY ESTIMATION; QUALITY MEASURES; SPECTRAL SLOPES; TEST SETS;

DEGRADATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84867193517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. French, N. R. and Steinberg, J. C., "Factors governing the intelligibility of speech sounds", JASA, vol. 19:90.119, 1947.
2. Steeneken, H. J. M. and Houtgast, T., "A physical method for measuring speech-transmission quality", JASA, 67:318-326, 1980.
3. Quackenbush, S. R., Barnwell III, T. P. and Clement, M. A., "ObjectiveMeasures of Speech Quality", Prentice Hall, 1988.
4. Klatt, D. H., "Prediction of perceived phonetic distance from critical band spectra: a first step", ICASSP, 1278-1281, 1981.
5. Yang, W., Benbouchta, M. and Yantorno, R., "A modified bark spectral distortion measure as an objective speech quality measure", ICASSP, 541-544, 1998.
6. Voran, S "Estimation of perceived speech quality using measuring normalizing blocks", IEEE Spch. Cod. Wksp., 83-84, 1997.
7. ITU-T Rec. P.862, "Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ): An objective method for ...",. Int. Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switz., 2001.
8. Kaga, R. and Kondo, K. "Estimation of japanese speech intelligibility using objective speech quality evaluation method PESQ", 5th Technical Meeting of the Info. Proc. Soc. of
9. Boll, S. F., Furui, S. and Sondhi, M. M. "Speech enhancement in the 1980s: noise suppression with pattern matching", Advances in speech signal processing", Marcel-Dekker, 1991.
10. Hu, Y. and Loizou, P. C., "A comparative intelligibility study of speech enhancement algorithms", ICASSP, 4(4):561-564, 2007.
11. Beerends, J. G., Larsen, E., Iyer, N. and Vugt, J. M. V. "Measurement of speech intelligibility based on the PESQ approach", MESAQIN, 2004.
12. Beerends, J. G., Wijngaarden, S. V. and Buuren, R. V., "Extension of ITU-T recommendation P.862 PESQ towards measuring speech intelligibility with vocoders", 2005.
13. Yamada, T., Kumakura, M. and Kitawaki, N., "Word intelligibilityestimation of noise-reduced speech", ICSLP, 169-172, 2006,
14. Kitawaki, N. and Yamada, T. "Subjective and objective quality assessment for noise reduced speech", ETSI Wksp. Spch and Noise in Wideband Comm., 1-4, 2007.
15. Manohar, K. and Rao, P "Speech enhancement in nonstationary noise environments using noise properties", Speech Comm., 48(1):96-109, 2006.
16. Liu, W. M., Mason, J. S., Evans, N. W. D. and Jellyman, K. A., "An assessment of automatic speech recognition as speech intelligibility estimation in the context of additive noise", ICSLP, 2006.