Corrupted speech data considered useful: Improving perceived speech quality of VoIP over error-prone channels

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1052-1060

  Hammer, Florian ^a   Reichl, Peter ^a   Nordström, Tomas ^a   Kubin, Gernot ^b  

^a TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

DISTRIBUTED BIT ERRORS; ERROR-PRONE CHANNELS; SPEECH DECODING; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 11244261314     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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