Speech quality assessment method and system

Details Speech quality assessment method and system Speech quality assessment method and system

2005-07-05

2010-12-21

Smits, Talivaldis Ivars (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C702S069000

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ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, distortion in a received speech signal is estimated using at least one model trained based on subjective quality assessment data. A speech quality assessment for the received speech signal is then determined based on the estimated distortion.

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