Title :
Statistical evaluation of reliability of large scale listening tests
Author :
Tihelka, Daniel ; Romportl, Jan
Author_Institution :
Depart. of Cybern., Univ. of West Bohemia, Plzen
Abstract :
The present paper deals with the evaluation of large-scale listening tests and with the detection of unaccountable or unreliable answers for each listener. The iterative maximum likelihood estimation scheme is proposed and its abilities are demonstrated and discussed on data collected from a large-scale listening test which was carried out with the aim to collect reference material capturing human perception of similarity of suprasegmental speech units.
Keywords :
iterative methods; maximum likelihood estimation; reliability; speech synthesis; statistical analysis; human perception; iterative maximum likelihood estimation scheme; large scale listening tests; statistical evaluation; suprasegmental speech units; text-to-speech synthesis; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic testing; Cybernetics; Humans; Large-scale systems; Materials testing; Maximum likelihood estimation; Particle measurements; Speech synthesis; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing, 2008. ICSP 2008. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2178-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2179-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.2008.4697211
