Intelligent voice smoother for silence-suppressed voice over internet

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-41

  Tien, Po L ^a   Yuang, Maria C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering ^*

Author keywords

Back propagation neural network (BPNN); Best effort service; Constant bit rate (CBR); Internet; Intramedia synchronization; Jitter; Markov modulated Bernoulli process (MMBP); Multimedia communications; Silence suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008102341     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.743694     Document Type: Article

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