Voice and Speech Quality Perception: Assessment and EvaluationSpringer Science & Business Media, 2 ago 2005 - 208 páginas Foundations of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts out with the fundamental question of: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Any quantitative answers require measurements. This is natural for physical quantities but harder to imagine for perceptual measurands. This book approaches the problem by actually identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units wherever possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions into a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. Many scientific fields are involved. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception. |
Índice
Introduction | |
Aims and Methods of Speech Quality Assessment | 1 |
21 Summary | 5 |
Aspects of Quality Laying the Foundations | 7 |
32 Quality as the design goal | 12 |
33 Designing the quality of innovative entities | 14 |
34 Summary | 16 |
Speech Technology and Speech Quality Perception | 19 |
831 Intelligibility tests in speech technology and audiology | 93 |
84 Summary | 98 |
Towards the Structure of Speech Quality Measurements | 101 |
92 Aspects specific to usage | 103 |
93 Systemic view of speech quality measurements | 105 |
Segmental Intelligibility A Dimension of Quality | 109 |
An introduction | 110 |
1013 The Semantically Unpredictable Sentences SUS Test | 113 |
42 Speech synthesis and its different design aims | 24 |
Emphases and aims | 25 |
422 Experience of techniques and expectations of quality | 29 |
43 Elements of quality of speech synthesizers | 31 |
The text as an element of quality | 33 |
45 Synthetic speech as a causal sign | 37 |
46 Functional internal system entities as elements of quality | 42 |
47 Speech synthesis and associated goals in research | 43 |
48 Summary | 45 |
From Speech Perception to Assessment of Quality | 49 |
Form and adaptation | 51 |
53 Interindividual perception | 54 |
54 Speech quality assessment as a measuring process | 55 |
55 Measuring and measurands | 57 |
56 Measuring processes vs investigative processes | 60 |
57 Measuring instruments and measuring organs | 61 |
58 Summary | 64 |
Quality Assessment in View of System Theory | 67 |
Auditory Measuring Procedures | 71 |
72 Measuring scales | 76 |
722 The scale as a function of the measurand | 78 |
73 Summary | 82 |
Formal aspects of speech quality measurements | 85 |
83 Speech quality tests as measuring tools | 92 |
1014 The CLID Test | 114 |
1015 General information on the CLID methodology | 115 |
1016 Test vocabulary as a measuring influence | 120 |
102 On the comparability of study results | 125 |
1027 On the influence of scaling | 127 |
1022 On the influence of the stimulus context | 129 |
1023 On the influence of syllable structure and frequency | 130 |
1024 On the validity of the test results | 135 |
103 Summary | 137 |
The Cluster Similarity Study | 139 |
111 On the background of the study | 140 |
112 Details of the study | 144 |
113 On rating and scaling | 145 |
Similarity profile of prenuclear consonant clusters | 149 |
115 Comparison of the similarity profile of natural and synthetic speech | 154 |
116 Similarity profile for various vowel contexts | 160 |
117 Summary | 161 |
Conclusion | 171 |
References | 175 |
| 195 | |
Subject Index | 197 |
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