Blind Speech Signal Quality Estimation for Speaker Verification Systems

@inproceedings{Lavrentyeva2020BlindSS,
  title={Blind Speech Signal Quality Estimation for Speaker Verification Systems},
  author={Galina Lavrentyeva and Marina Volkova and Anastasia Avdeeva and Sergey Novoselov and Artem Gorlanov and Tseren Andzhukaev and Artem Ivanov and Alexander Kozlov},
  booktitle={INTERSPEECH},
  year={2020}
}
The problem of system performance degradation in mismatched acoustic conditions has been widely acknowledged in the community and is common for different fields. The present state-ofthe-art deep speaker embedding models are domain-sensitive. The main idea of the current research is to develop a single method for automatic signal quality estimation, which allows to evaluate short-term signal characteristics. This paper presents a neural network based approach for blind speech signal quality… 
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