Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ): The new ITU standard for end-to-end speech quality assessment. Part II - Psychoacoustic model

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 765-778

  Beerends, John G ^a   Hekstra, Andries P ^a   Rix, Antony W ^a   Hollier, Michael P ^a  

^a KPN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; EVALUATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STANDARDIZATION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

CODE EXCITED LINEAR PREDICTION; CODEC ASSESSMENT MODEL; INTERNET PROTOCOL; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITY; PSYCHOACOUSTIC MODEL;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036805081     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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