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Subjective Quality Measurement of Speech

Its Evaluation, Estimation and Applications

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  • Shows how to accurately estimate and monitor speech quality
  • Readers can start measuring or estimating speech intelligibility of their own system
  • Introduces to subjective and objective speech quality measures
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Signals and Communication Technology (SCT)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Kazuhiro Kondo
    Pages 1-6
  3. Speech Quality

    • Kazuhiro Kondo
    Pages 7-20
  4. The Japanese Diagnostic Rhyme Test

    • Kazuhiro Kondo
    Pages 21-28
  5. Other DRT Evaluation Examples

    • Kazuhiro Kondo
    Pages 75-92
  6. Summary

    • Kazuhiro Kondo
    Pages 143-147
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 149-153

About this book

It is becoming crucial to accurately estimate and monitor speech quality in various ambient environments to guarantee high quality speech communication. This practical hands-on book shows speech intelligibility measurement methods so that the readers can start measuring or estimating speech intelligibility of their own system. The book also introduces subjective and objective speech quality measures, and describes in detail speech intelligibility measurement methods. It introduces a diagnostic rhyme test which uses rhyming word-pairs, and includes: An investigation into the effect of word familiarity on speech intelligibility. Speech intelligibility measurement of localized speech in virtual 3-D acoustic space using the rhyme test. Estimation of speech intelligibility using objective measures, including the ITU standard PESQ measures, and automatic speech recognizers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Science, Yamagata, Japan

    Kazuhiro Kondo

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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