[HTML][HTML] On the deficiency of intelligibility metrics as proxies for subjective intelligibility

I López-Espejo, A Edraki, WY Chan, ZH Tan… - Speech …, 2023 - Elsevier
A recent trend in deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement consists of using
intelligibility and quality metrics as loss functions for model training with the aim of achieving …

Exploiting hidden representations from a DNN-based speech recogniser for speech intelligibility prediction in hearing-impaired listeners

Z Tu, N Ma, J Barker - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04287, 2022 - arxiv.org
An accurate objective speech intelligibility prediction algorithms is of great interest for many
applications such as speech enhancement for hearing aids. Most algorithms measures the …

Subjective evaluation of a noise-reduced training target for deep neural network-based speech enhancement

FB Gelderblom, TV Tronstad… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech enhancement systems aim to improve the quality and intelligibility of noisy speech.
In this study, we compare two speech enhancement systems based on deep neural …

The benefit of combining a deep neural network architecture with ideal ratio mask estimation in computational speech segregation to improve speech intelligibility

T Bentsen, T May, AA Kressner, T Dau - PLoS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Computational speech segregation attempts to automatically separate speech from noise.
This is challenging in conditions with interfering talkers and low signal-to-noise ratios …

On the predictive power of objective intelligibility metrics for the subjective performance of deep complex convolutional recurrent speech enhancement networks

FB Gelderblom, TV Tronstad… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech enhancement (SE) systems aim to improve the quality and intelligibility of degraded
speech signals obtained from far-field microphones. Subjective evaluation of the …

Study on the Correlation Between Objective Evaluations and Subjective Speech Quality and Intelligibility

HT Chiang, KH Hung, SW Fu, HC Kuo… - 2023 IEEE Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subjective tests are the gold standard for evaluating speech quality and intelligibility;
however, they are time-consuming and expensive. Thus, objective measures that align with …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-resolution Gammachirp Envelope Distortion Index for Intelligibility Prediction of Noisy Speech.

K Yamamoto, T Irino, N Ohashi, S Araki… - …, 2018 - researchgate.net
A multi-resolution version of the gammachirp envelope distortion index (mr-GEDI) is
proposed for the intelligibility prediction of noisy speech processed using speech …

Evaluating Speech Enhancement Systems Through Listening Effort

FB Gelderblom, TV Tronstad, I López-Espejo - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding degraded speech is demanding, requiring increased listening effort (LE).
Evaluating processed and unprocessed speech with respect to LE can objectively indicate if …

A Controlled Noise Reduction Wiener Filter Based on the Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem

N Pan, J Benesty, J Chen - 2023 Asia Pacific Signal and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of multichannel noise reduction and a controlled Wiener
filter is developed in the frequency domain by minimizing the subband mean-squared error …

Towards the development of a non-intrusive objective quality measure for dnn-enhanced speech

JF Santos, TH Falk - 2019 eleventh international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, several works have focused on leveraging the advances of deep neural networks
(DNN) to a variety of domains, including speech enhancement. While advances in …