The study of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts with a
fundamental question: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech
quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Quantitative answers
require measurements. This book approaches the problem by identifying
major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception,
defining units where possible and offering paradigms to position these
dimensions in a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice
quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment
of systems in artificial scenarios. This book bridges the gap between
two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes
the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.