Lightburn, LLLightburnBrookes, DDBrookes2016-07-062016-03-252016-07-062016-03-252016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016, pp.5365-5369http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/34417It is known that the information required for the intelligibility of a speech signal is distributed non-uniformly in time. In this paper we propose WSTOI, a modified version of STOI, a speech intelligibility metric. With WSTOI the contribution of each time-frequency cell is weighted by an estimate of its intelligibility content. This estimate is equal to the mutual information between two hypothetical signals at either end of a simplified model of human communication. Listening tests show that the modification improves the prediction accuracy of STOI at all performance levels on both long and short utterances. An improvement was observed across all tested noise types and suppression algorithms.© 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Conference Paperhttps://www.dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472702ep/m026698/1