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Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment

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Abstract

The present book aims at developing a multi-method, “process-oriented” assessment approach for testing effects of varying speech transmission quality on information processing in human listeners. In addition to methods for conventional subjective speech quality assessment, this chapter introduces more recently employed behavioral and neurophysiological techniques and paradigms. Afterward, those different method classes are compared in view of several measurement criteria.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    If category rating paradigms were implemented as forced-choice RT tasks, by giving participants the additional instruction to answer their opinion as quickly as possible, behavioral descriptions of judged quality could also be analyzed with regard to behavioral response time.

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    The historical origins of the EEG method can be traced back to studies by Richard Caton (1842–1926), who registered cortical activity via surface electrodes placed onto the scalp of test animals [40]. During the 1920s, the German neurologist Hans Berger (1873–1941) carried out first human EEG recordings [41].

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    In the EEG frequency or time-frequency domain, event-related brain oscillations (EROs) refer to oscillatory activity changes in certain frequency bands elicited by defined events [49, 50].

  4. 4.

    The logic of psychophysiological inference is founded on relations between internal processes (i.e., elements within a “psychological domain”) and simple physiological responses, complex physiological response patterns, or profiles (i.e., elements within multiple “physiological domains”) [62, 112].

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Uhrig, S. (2022). Speech Quality Assessment. In: Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71389-8_3

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