A Non-Intrusive Quality and Intelligibility Measure of Reverberant and Dereverberated Speech

A modulation spectral representation is investigated for non-intrusive quality and intelligibility measurement of reverberant and dereverberated speech. The representation is obtained by means of an auditory-inspired filterbank analysis of critical-band temporal envelopes of the speech signal. Modul...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inIEEE transactions on audio, speech, and language processing Vol. 18; no. 7; pp. 1766 - 1774
Main Authors Falk, Tiago H, Chenxi Zheng, Wai-Yip Chan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2010
Subjects
Coloration
dereverberation
Frequency modulation
Intelligibility
Modulation
modulation spectrum
Natural language processing
quality diagnosis
Representations
Reverberation
Spectra
Speech
Speech processing
Tasks
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:A modulation spectral representation is investigated for non-intrusive quality and intelligibility measurement of reverberant and dereverberated speech. The representation is obtained by means of an auditory-inspired filterbank analysis of critical-band temporal envelopes of the speech signal. Modulation spectral insights are used to develop an adaptive measure termed speech to reverberation modulation energy ratio. Experimental results show the proposed measure outperforming three standard algorithms for tasks involving estimation of multiple dimensions of perceived coloration, as well as quality measurement and intelligibility estimation of reverberant and dereverberated speech.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ISSN:1558-7916
1558-7924
DOI:10.1109/TASL.2010.2052247