Objective modeling of speech quality with a psychoacoustically validated auditory model

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 395-409

  Hansen, Martin ^a,b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Tøpholm and Westermann ApS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

PSYCHOACOUSTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING MODEL; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 0033729018     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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