Artificial voice signal for objective quality evaluation of speech coding systems

Author

Kitawaki, Nobuhiko ; Itoh, Kenzo ; Irii, Hiroshi ; Nagabuchi, Hiromi

Author_Institution

NTT Lab., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1989

Firstpage

373

Abstract

An artificial voice signal that reflects the average characteristics of the human voice is described. This signal is intended for use as a test signal in the objective evaluation of speech coding system quality. To obtain the average characteristics, a multilingual set of speech samples is analyzed. An artificial voice generation method that reflects the extracted average characteristics of a human voice is formulated. This method applies vector quantizing analysis to the multilingual speech database. The partial correlation (PARCOR) speech synthesis circuit is used to reproduce the average characteristics. Finally, the artificial voice is compared with a human voice, and the estimation accuracy of the subjective quality of speech coding systems is evaluated

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; encoding; speech analysis and processing; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; artificial voice generation; artificial voice signal; average characteristics; estimation accuracy; human voice; multilingual speech database; objective quality evaluation; partial correlation; speech coding systems; speech samples; speech synthesis circuit; test signal; vector quantizing analysis; Cepstrum; Distortion measurement; Frequency estimation; Human voice; Linear predictive coding; Phase change materials; Quality assessment; Speech analysis; Speech coding; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1989. ICC '89, BOSTONICC/89. Conference record. 'World Prosperity Through Communications', IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1989.49724

Filename

49724