Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding, pp. 138-140, Porvoo, Finland, June 1999

Advances in Objective Estimation of Perceived Speech Quality

doi: 10.1109/SCFT.1999.781510

Stephen D. Voran

Abstract: We present two techniques that can be used to enhance objective estimators of perceived speech quality. Frame normalization and frame-energy plane partitioning are described and applied to a log-spectral-error-based estimator. The resulting estimators are compared with each other and with two established estimators. This is done through correlation with MOS values from 17 formal subjective tests. We find that the proposed techniques significantly improve the log-spectral-error-based estimator.

Keywords: perceived speech quality; MOS values; formal subjective tests; frame normalization; frame-energy plane partitioning; log-spectral-error-based estimator; objective estimation

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