Evaluation of objective measures for quality assessment of reverberant speech

Author

Kokkinakis, Kostas ; Loizou, Philipos C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

22-27 May 2011

Firstpage

2420

Lastpage

2423

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of existing and new objective measures in terms of predicting the quality of reverberant speech and speech enhanced by dereverberation algorithms. We use subjective quality ratings designed to evaluate the quality of speech along three dimensions: speech coloration, reverberation tail effect and overall speech quality. Experimental results assess the correlations between the proposed objective quality measures and the three subjective rating scales and suggest that PESQ-based measures can very reliably predict the quality of reverberant and dereverberated speech.

Keywords

reverberation; speech enhancement; dereverberation algorithms; objective measures evaluation; quality assessment; reverberant speech; reverberation tail effect; speech coloration; speech enhancement; speech quality; Correlation; Databases; Distortion measurement; Reverberation; Speech; Speech enhancement; Objective measures; reverberation; speech quality assessment; subjective listening tests;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946972

Filename

5946972