In a previous post of mine (which you should read now if you haven’t already) I explained how to create a MATLAB executable for the widely used PESQ algorithm. The main reason for wanting to do this was to save time when running a large amount of speech quality tests and the speed increases obtained from using a PESQ MEX function were amazing! At the time of writing that post, the MEX function was approximately 8 times faster than anything else online that I could find. In fact, it is still the fastest implementation I can find, however, I think there is room for improvement and I finally found some time to get it working. In this post, I will show step-by-step how you can compile the PESQ MEX function to accept audio vectors directly from MATLAB and, which, should give great speed increases when run on parallel cores.
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