This paper describes a double-ended quality assessment system for speech with a bandwidth of up to 14 kHz (so-called super-wideband speech). The quality assessment system is based on a combination of local and global features, where the local features are dependent on a time alignment procedure and the global features are not. The system is evaluated over a large set of subjectively scored narrowband, wideband and super-wideband speech databases. The system performs similarly to PESQ for narrowband speech and significantly better for wideband speech.
Published in:
Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:19
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Issue:
3
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Date of Publication: March 2011