ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993

Proposal of a composite measure for the evaluation of noise cancelling methods in speech processing

R. Le Bouquin, G. Faucon, A. Akbariazirani

This work addresses the problem of evaluating noise reduction techniques for hand-free telecommunications. It summarizes objective quality measures that are used in such a context. Finding a high correlation between objective and subjective tests remains a key point. In this paper, we propose a composite measure that appears more correlated with listening tests than classical ones. Its parameters are first determined by a training period and then this measure is validated using different noise cancelling approaches.