Objective estimation of perceived speech quality - Part II: evaluation of the measuring normalizing block technique

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-390

  Voran, Stephen ^a  

^a Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CORRELATION THEORY; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; TESTING;

AUDITORY SYSTEM; MEASURING NORMALIZING BLOCKS; OBJECTIVE ESTIMATION; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH QUALITY ESTIMATION; SPEECH QUALITY TESTING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032683490     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.771260     Document Type: Article

References (11)

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