Voice and Speech Quality Perception: Assessment and Evaluation

✍ Scribed by Dr. Ute Jekosch (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Foundations of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts out with the fundamental question of: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Any quantitative answers require measurements. This is natural for physical quantities but harder to imagine for perceptual measurands. This book approaches the problem by actually identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units wherever possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions into a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. Many scientific fields are involved. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.

✦ Table of Contents

References....Pages 179-198
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Aims and Methods of Speech Quality Assessment....Pages 5-9
Aspects of Quality: Laying the Foundations....Pages 11-21
Speech Technology and Speech Quality Perception....Pages 23-51
From Speech Perception to Assessment of Quality....Pages 53-69
Quality Assessment in View of System Theory....Pages 71-74
Auditory Measuring Procedures....Pages 75-87
Formal aspects of speech quality measurements....Pages 89-103
Towards the Structure of Speech Quality Measurements....Pages 105-111
Segmental Intelligibility: A Dimension of Quality....Pages 113-141
The Cluster Similarity Study....Pages 143-173
Conclusion....Pages 175-177

✦ Subjects

Acoustics;Signal, Image and Speech Processing;Language Translation and Linguistics;User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction