A study on speech quality and speech intelligibility measures for quality assessment of single-channel dereverberation algorithms

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 233-237

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

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Objective quality measures; speech dereverberation; subjective listening test

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH;

OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84957699182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6954293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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