Speech intelligibility measuring method based on auditory masking effect

Abstract

The invention discloses a speech intelligibility measuring method based on an auditory masking effect. The speech intelligibility measuring method based on the auditory masking effect is characterized by comprising the steps that (1) the auditory masking threshold of reference signals and the auditory masking threshold of output signals are estimated respectively according to a psychological acoustic model in the ISO / IEC11172-3 standard in the mode of carrying out frame division on the reference signals and the output signals obtained by enabling the reference signals to pass through a communication transmission system or a speech transmission system, and using the frame as a basic unit; (2) audible components in the reference signals and audible components in the output signals are extracted according to the auditory masking thresholds; (3) the amplitude of the audible components of the reference signals and the amplitude of audible components of the output signals are converted into the loudness according to the ISO226-2003 standard equal-loudness level curve, the sensing similarity, the speech information fidelity and the sensing signal to noise ratio of signals in each frame are calculated, and then the degree of distortion of the output signals is obtained; (4) intelligibility prediction is carried out on the output signals according to a curve of the relation between the degree of distortion and intelligibility. Compared with a common speech intelligibility objective measuring method at present, the speech intelligibility measuring method based on the auditory masking effect is higher in measuring accuracy.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an objective measurement method of speech intelligibility based on input / output, in particular to a method for measuring speech intelligibility based on auditory masking effect. Background technique [0002] Intelligibility is an important quality factor of speech signals, and it is widely used in hall design, medical research (such as hearing aids, cochlear implants, hearing impairment, etc.), speech enhancement, sound reinforcement system and communication system performance testing and other fields. [0003] According to different evaluation subjects, intelligibility measurement can be divided into subjective and objective. Subjective intelligibility measurement is the most basic and commonly used means of intelligibility evaluation through the subjective evaluation of the speech signal directly by the listener. However, due to the large amount of manpower and material resources required to organize a rigorous listening tes...

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Problems solved by technology

The essence of SII is a frequency band weighted signal-to-noise ratio method, which does not consider the auditory characteristics of the human ear. It is only suitable for some simple linear distortion signals, and its application range is limited; STI uses artificially synthesized signals as excitation, although it can adapt to nonlinear distortion signals. , but its essence is a system performance test, and the amount of calculation is large

In general, the measurement accuracy of SII and STI is not very high

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