Voice and Speech Quality Perception Assessment and Evaluation /

• Main Author: Jekosch, Ute (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Physics.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Acoustics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

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...

Table of Contents:

• References
• Aims and Methods of Speech Quality Assessment
• Aspects of Quality: Laying the Foundations
• Speech Technology and Speech Quality Perception
• From Speech Perception to Assessment of Quality
• Quality Assessment in View of System Theory
• Auditory Measuring Procedures
• Formal aspects of speech quality measurements
• Towards the Structure of Speech Quality Measurements
• Segmental Intelligibility: A Dimension of Quality
• The Cluster Similarity Study
• Conclusion.