Title
Speech quality assessment over lossy transmission channels using deep belief networks
Date Issued
2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Nowadays, there are several telephone services based on IP networks. However, the networks can present many disturbances, such as packet loss rate (PLR), which is one of the most impairing network factors. An impaired speech communication affects the users’ quality of experience; hence, the assessment of speech quality is relevant to the telephone operators. Therefore, the determination of a methodology to predict a speech quality with a higher accuracy in telephone services is relevant. In this context, this letter introduces a novel nonintrusive speech quality classifier (SQC) model based on deep belief networks (DBN), in which the support vector machine with radial basis function kernel is the classifier applied in DBN, in order to identify four speech quality classes. A speech database was built, based on unimpaired speech files of public databases, in which different PLR models and values are applied, and a standardized intrusive method is used to calculate the index quality of each file. Results show that SQC largely overcomes the results obtained by ITU-T Recommendation P.563. Also, subjective tests are performed to validate the SQC performance, and it reached an accuracy of 95% on speech quality classification. Furthermore, a solution architecture is introduced, demonstrating the usefulness and flexibility of the proposed SQC.
Start page
70
End page
74
Volume
25
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85035085121
Source
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
ISSN of the container
10709908
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received July 9, 2017; revised October 14, 2017; accepted November 5, 2017. Date of publication November 14, 2017; date of current version November 27, 2017. This work was supported by the Fundac¸ão de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo under Grant 2015/25512-0 and Grant 2015/24496-0. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. James E. Fowler. (Corresponding author: Renata L. Rosa.) The authors are with the Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG 37200-000, Brazil (e-mail: emmanuelcomp@gmail.com; renata.rosa@dcc.ufla.br; demostenes.zegarra@dcc.ufla.br).
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