Comparison of objective speech quality measures for voiceband CODECs

Nobuhiko Kitawaki, Kenzo Itoh, Masaaki Honda, Kazuhjko Kakehi

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Abstract

This paper describes objective quality measures to evaluate speech quality for various kinds of voiceband CODECs in common. The voiceband CODECs studied were PCM, ADM, ADPCM, ATC (Adaptive Transform Coding) and APC-AB (Adaptive Predictive Coding with Adaptive Bit Allocation). First, several objective quality measures in time and frequency domain were defined. They were SNR, Segmental SNR, Spectral Distortion, LPC Cepstrum Distance, COSH, Likelihood Ratio and Weighted Likelihood Ratio. Second, speech quality for voiceband CODECs were evaluated by subjective and objective quality measures. The subjective measures used were based on opinion test and articulation test. Finally, the relationship between objective measures and subjectively evaluated values was studied. It was concluded that the LPC Cepstrum Distance measure had best correspondence to Mean Opinion Score, among the objective measures studied. It was also concluded that the Wighted Likelihood Ratio measure had best correspondence to Articulation Score.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1171566
Pages (from-to)1000-1003
Number of pages4
JournalICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume1982-May
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1982
Externally publishedYes
Event1982 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 1982 - Paris, France
Duration: 1982 May 31982 May 5

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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