Voice and Speech Quality Perception - Assessment and Evaluation

Foundations of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts out with the fundamental question of: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Any quantitative answers require measurements. This is natural for physical quantities but harder to imagine for perceptual measurands. This book approaches the problem by actually identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units wherever possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions into a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. Many scientific fields are involved. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.

List of contents

References.- Aims and Methods of Speech Quality Assessment.- Aspects of Quality: Laying the Foundations.- Speech Technology and Speech Quality Perception.- From Speech Perception to Assessment of Quality.- Quality Assessment in View of System Theory.- Auditory Measuring Procedures.- Formal aspects of speech quality measurements.- Towards the Structure of Speech Quality Measurements.- Segmental Intelligibility: A Dimension of Quality.- The Cluster Similarity Study.- Conclusion.

Summary

The study of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts with a fundamental question: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Quantitative answers require measurements. This book approaches the problem by identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units where possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions in a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.

Product details

• Authors: Ute Jekosch
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642063237
• ISBN: 978-3-642-06323-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 357 g
• Illustrations: X, 210 p.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology; Signals and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; B, Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Acoustics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Signal Processing, Physics and Astronomy, Speech processing systems, Digital and Analog Signal Processing, Imaging systems & technology, Image processing, User interface design & usability, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, User interfaces (Computer systems), Natural language & machine translation, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural language processing (Computer science)