Variable Voice Likability Affecting Subjective Speech Quality Assessments
Variable Voice Likability Affecting Subjective Speech Quality Assessments
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影响主观语音质量评估的可变语音可爱度
DOI：
10.1109/qomex.2018.8463432
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2018
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J. Beerends
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Laura Fernández Gallardo;Gabriel Mittag;Sebastian Möller;J. Beerends
在电话交谈中，需要传输质量好到优秀的语音，以增强体验质量并维持持久的客户忠诚度。主观平均意见分数占感知传输质量，而工具模型，如POLQA，能够估计的主观判断。为了进行主观或工具性的质量测量，国际电信联盟建议使用男性和女性说话者的两句话作为语音材料。在本文中，我们已经研究了主观和工具MOS评级是否受到感性的声音可爱。听力测试已经进行了超过8个降级与12个非常可爱和不可爱的男性和女性扬声器。性别和声音可爱的统计显着影响已检测到主观MOS，而工具MOS只受性别差异。这些结果有助于进一步改进POLQA感知建模，以及语音质量评估测试的扬声器的选择。
In telephone conversations, transmitted speech of good to excellent quality is desired for enhanced Quality of Experience and to sustain lasting customer loyalty. Subjective mean opinion scores account for perceived transmitted quality, while instrumental models, such as POLQA, are able to estimate the subjective judgments. To perform subjective or instrumental quality measurements, the International Telecommunication Union recommends to employ two sentences from both, male and female speakers as speech material. In this paper, we have examined whether subjective and instrumental MOS ratings are affected by perceptual voice likability. A listening test has been conducted over 8 degradations with 12 extremely likable and unlikable male and female speakers. Statistically significant effects of gender and of voice likability have been detected on subjective MOS, whereas instrumental MOS was only affected by gender differences. These results can contribute to further improvements needed in the POLQA perceptual modeling, as well as to the selection of speakers for speech quality assessment tests.