Objective measures for predicting the intelligibility of spectrally smoothed speech with artificial excitation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ben Milner; Danny Websdale; Thomas Le Cornu
- Source
- INTERSPEECH
- Subject
- Computer science
Spectral envelope
Speech recognition
Intelligibility (communication)
Smoothing
- Language
- English
A study is presented on how well objective measures of speech quality and intelligibility can predict the subjective in- telligibility of speech that has undergone spectral envelope smoothing and simplification of its excitation. Speech modi- fications are made by resynthesising speech that has been spec- trally smoothed. Objective measures are applied to the mod- ified speech and include measures of speech quality, signal- to-noise ratio and intelligibility, as well as proposing the nor- malised frequency-weighted spectral distortion (NFD) measure. The measures are compared to subjective intelligibility scores where it is found that several have high correlation (|r| ≥ 0.7), with NFD achieving the highest correlation (r = −0.81)