ANIQUE+: A new American national standard for non-intrusive estimation of narrowband speech quality

Abstract

Non-intrusive estimation of speech quality is a challenging problem in that the estimation has to be performed without the original reference speech signals. This paper presents a new American national standard (ANS) for non-intrusive estimation of narrowband speech quality. The proposed auditory non-intrusive quality estimation plus (ANIQUE+) model is a perceptual model simulating the functional roles of the human auditory system and employs improved modeling of quality estimation by a statistical learning paradigm. Experimental evaluation demonstrated that the performance of the ANIQUE+ model is significantly superior to that of the current International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) standard recommendation P563 on 34 different subjective mean opinion score (MOS) databases. (c) 2007 Alcatel-Lucent.