An Evaluation of Intrusive Instrumental Intelligibility Metrics

Instrumental intelligibility metrics are commonly used as an alternative to listening tests. This paper evaluates 12 monaural intrusive intelligibility metrics: SII, HEGP, CSII, HASPI, NCM, QSTI, STOI, ESTOI, MIKNN, SIMI, SIIB, and sEPSM^corr. In addition, this paper investigates the ability of intelligibility metrics to generalize...

Jointly optimal near-end and far-end multi-microphone speech intelligibility enhancement based on mutual information

The processing required for the global maximization of the intelligibility of speech acquired by multiple microphones and rendered by a single loudspeaker, is considered in this paper. The intelligibility is quantized, based on the mutual information rate between the message spoken by the talker and the message as interpreted by the listener. We...