Publication detail

Can ASR be Used for Evaluating Speech Quality?

VONDRA, M. VÍCH, R.

Original Title

Can ASR be Used for Evaluating Speech Quality?

English Title

Can ASR be Used for Evaluating Speech Quality?

Type

conference paper

Language

Czech

Original Abstract

In this contribution we present several case studies in which automatic speech recognition (ASR) was tested as a means for evaluating quality of speech, either human or synthetic. Usually, speech quality is measured by subjective tests. Our aim was to investigate whether these tests (which request considerable amount of human time and experience) could be replaced (or supplemented) by techniques based on ASR. So far we studied the application of 2 types of Czech ASR systems to the evaluation of intelligibility of TTS systems, pronunciation quality of professional and non-professional speakers and intelligibility of noisy speech before and after applying signal enhancement techniques.

English abstract

In this contribution we present several case studies in which automatic speech recognition (ASR) was tested as a means for evaluating quality of speech, either human or synthetic. Usually, speech quality is measured by subjective tests. Our aim was to investigate whether these tests (which request considerable amount of human time and experience) could be replaced (or supplemented) by techniques based on ASR. So far we studied the application of 2 types of Czech ASR systems to the evaluation of intelligibility of TTS systems, pronunciation quality of professional and non-professional speakers and intelligibility of noisy speech before and after applying signal enhancement techniques.

Keywords

Speech Quality, Speech Recognition, Recognition Rate

Key words in English

Speech Quality, Speech Recognition, Recognition Rate

Authors

VONDRA, M.; VÍCH, R.

RIV year

2007

Released

1. 1. 2007

Publisher

UFE AVČR

Location

Praha

ISBN

978-80-86269-00-9

Book

17th Czech-German Workshop Speech Processing

Edition

1

Edition number

1

Pages from

115

Pages to

121

Pages count

7

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT25285,
  author="Martin {Vondra} and Robert {Vích}",
  title="Can ASR be Used for Evaluating Speech Quality?",
  booktitle="17th Czech-German Workshop Speech Processing",
  year="2007",
  series="1",
  number="1",
  pages="115--121",
  publisher="UFE AVČR",
  address="Praha",
  isbn="978-80-86269-00-9"
}