Subjective and Objective Measurements of Speech Loudness in Hands-Free Telephony—Toward an Extended Loudness Model for Telephonometry

Edjekouane I, Plapous C, Quinquis C, Meunier S. Subjective and Objective Measurements of Speech Loudness in Hands-Free Telephony—Toward an Extended Loudness Model for Telephonometry. In: AES Convention 139. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 9440. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17996

@inproceedings{Edjekouane2015_17996,
  author = {Edjekouane, Idir and Plapous, Cyril and Quinquis, Catherine and Meunier, Sabine},
  title = {{Subjective and Objective Measurements of Speech Loudness in Hands-Free Telephony—Toward an Extended Loudness Model for Telephonometry}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 139},
  note = {Paper 9440},
  year = {2015},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17996}
}

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AU  - Meunier, Sabine
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AB  - The loudness rating technique is widely used in telephony. This technique shows some limitations with the recent advances in telecommunications. This paper proposes a new alternative for the loudness rating technique using an extension of Zwicker’s loudness model. We first investigated the loudness of speech transmitted via a telephone system and the ability of Zwicker’s model to predict the perceived loudness. The model predicts the main trends observed in perceptual data. However, a bias exists between the prediction and the measure that depends on sound pressure level. Based on our perceptual data and on recent studies, we proposed a modification of the model at the specific loudness calculation stage. This modification brought a significant improvement on the predictions.
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