A Non-Intrusive Quality and Intelligibility Measure of Reverberant and Dereverberated Speech

A modulation spectral representation is investigated for non-intrusive quality and intelligibility measurement of reverberant and dereverberated speech. The representation is obtained by means of an auditory-inspired filterbank analysis of criticalband temporal envelopes of the speech signal. Modulation spectral insights are used to develop an adaptive measure termed speech to reverberation modulation energy ratio. Experimental results show the proposed measure outperforming three standard algorithms for tasks involving estimation of multiple dimensions of perceived coloration, as well as quality measurement and intelligibility estimation of reverberant and dereverberated speech.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TASLP
• Authors: Tiago H. Falk, Chenxi Zheng, Wai-Yip Chan
• Keywords: Modulation Spectral Insights, Modulation Spectral Representation, Reverberation Modulation Energy, Software Engineering, TASLP 2010