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Vishu R. Viswanathan and Thomas F. Quatieri. Chow, Carol S., 1978- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2005-08-23T16:30:15Z 2005-08-23T16:30:15Z 2001 2001 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8937 48983280 Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68). This is a thesis dissertation on objective speech quality measures. Two objective measures, Enhanced Modified Bark Spectral Distortion (EMBSD) and Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) were included in this study. The scope of the study covers the evaluation of EMBSD and PESQ in predicting subjective results from Mean Opinion Score (MOS) tests; an extension of PESQ to handle wideband speech; and the performance of EMBSD and PESQ on Degradation Mean Opinion Score (DMOS) tests in noise conditions. The following results are reported: (1) EMBSD can predict the quality of various conditions for a given coder, but not across coders. (2) PESQ can predict the quality of various conditions for a given coder as well as across coders. (3) While PESQ is effective in handling time shifts that occur during silence, it does not seem as effective when such shifts occur during speech. (4) A simple extension of PESQ can evaluate wideband speech as well as it evaluates narrowband speech. (5) When clean speech is used as reference, EMBSD predicts DMOS better than when noisy speech is used as reference. (6) PESQ predicts DMOS better when using noisy speech than with using clean speech as reference. by Carol S. Chow. M.Eng. S.B. 68 p. 4106724 bytes 4106483 bytes application/pdf application/pdf eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Research on objective speech quality measurements Thesis application/pdf false Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="f296e4fc-1108-42d8-8e0b-1eb82fdca449"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Research on objective speech quality measurements</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2001</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Chow, Carol S., 1978-</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.</Keyword> <Abstract>This is a thesis dissertation on objective speech quality measures. Two objective measures, Enhanced Modified Bark Spectral Distortion (EMBSD) and Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) were included in this study. The scope of the study covers the evaluation of EMBSD and PESQ in predicting subjective results from Mean Opinion Score (MOS) tests; an extension of PESQ to handle wideband speech; and the performance of EMBSD and PESQ on Degradation Mean Opinion Score (DMOS) tests in noise conditions. The following results are reported: (1) EMBSD can predict the quality of various conditions for a given coder, but not across coders. (2) PESQ can predict the quality of various conditions for a given coder as well as across coders. (3) While PESQ is effective in handling time shifts that occur during silence, it does not seem as effective when such shifts occur during speech. (4) A simple extension of PESQ can evaluate wideband speech as well as it evaluates narrowband speech. (5) When clean speech is used as reference, EMBSD predicts DMOS better than when noisy speech is used as reference. (6) PESQ predicts DMOS better when using noisy speech than with using clean speech as reference.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>