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Speech Quality Assessment for Listening-Room Compensation

Authors: Goetze, Stefan; Albertin, Eugen; Rennies, Jan; Habets, Emanuël A.P.; Kammeyer, Karl-Dirk

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · Volume 62 · Issue 6 · pp. 386–399 · June 2014

Abstract

There is extensive research on listening-room compensation algorithms to remove the unwanted degradations of speech quality. Objective measures for quality assessment are required in order to evaluate such algorithms. They exist in two classes: reverberation-cancellation algorithms that equalize the room impulse response of the acoustic channel, and reverberation-suppression algorithms that remove the reverberant part of the speech signal by calculating the spectral weight for time-frequency coefficients. This paper focuses on evaluating the former. Algorithms are analyzed regarding their capability to assess reverberation, coloration, spectral distortion, perceived distance, and overall quality of the signals. An evaluation of the sound quality of the dereverberated signals is derived from subjective listening tests and then compared to objective measures.

Details

Publication
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Volume
62
Issue
6
Pages
386–399
Publication date
June 6, 2014
Affiliation
Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, IDMT, Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology, Oldenburg, Germany; International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; University of Bremen, Dept. of Communications Engineering, Bremen, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Journal Article