Subjective speech quality and speech intelligibility evaluation of single-channel dereverberation algorithms

2014 14th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 332-336

  Warzybok, Anna ^a,e   Kodrasi, Ina ^a,e   Jungmann, Jan Ole ^b   Habets, Emanuel ^c   Gerkmann, Timo ^a,e   Mertins, Alfred ^b   Doclo, Simon ^a,e   Kollmeier, Birger ^a,d,e   Goetze, Stefan ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^e Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

dereverberation; perceptual validation; speech intelligibility; speech quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERBERATION; SPEECH;

DEREVERBERATION; ESTIMATION ERRORS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; PERCEPTUAL VALIDATION; REVERBERANT CONDITION; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84957659667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6954313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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