The Effect of Nonlinear Distortion on the Perceived Quality of Music and Speech Signals

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1012-1031

  Tan, Chin Tuan ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a   Zacharov, Nick ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDPASS FILTERS; CORRELATION METHODS; SPEECH; TRANSDUCERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MULTITONE TEST SIGNALS;

NONLINEAR DISTORTION;

EID: 0242456365     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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