Javed, H.A., Cauchi, B., Doclo, S. et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Measuring, modelling and predicting perceived reverberation. In: Proceedings of 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017). International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 05-09 Mar 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE , pp. 381-385. ISBN 9781509041183
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between the perceived level of reverberation and parameters measured from the room impulse response (RIR), as well as the design of an instrumental measure that predicts this perceived level. We first present the results of an experimental listening test conducted to assess the level of perceived reverberation in speech captured by a single microphone, before analysing the gathered data to assess the influence of parameters such as the reverberation time (T60) or the direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR). Secondly, we use the results of this analysis to improve the signal based reverberation decay tail (RDT) measure, previously proposed by the authors to predict the perceived level of reverberation. The accuracy of the proposed measure is evaluated in terms of correlation with the subjective scores and compared to the performance of predictors using parameters extracted from the RIR. Results show that the proposed modifications to the RDT does improve its accuracy. Though still slightly outperformed by measures based on parameters of the RIR, we believe the proposed measure to be useful in scenarios in which the RIR or its parameters are unknown.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Keywords: | Perceived reverberation; experimental listening tests; instrumental measures |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2020 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 18 May 2020 11:52 |
Published Version: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7952182 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952182 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160874 |