Model for time-varying quality of speech services

Abstract

Speech services are widely deployed on new communication infrastructures. However, compared with traditional infrastructures, the ever varying conditions are native of these new infrastructures. Modeling the time-varying speech quality becomes an urgent issue. This paper proposes a computable model for time-varying speech quality evaluation, called M-Model. Considering the time-varying issue, EWMA is used in the model. M-Model is validated by a subjective experiment. The model indicates that time-varying quality with extremely high frequency does not affect perceived quality at all. In addition, we observed that the recency effect influences not only the perceived overall quality but also the perceived instantaneous quality.