Telephone Transmission Impact on Synthesized Speech: Quality Assessment and Prediction

Acta Acustica (Stuttgart)

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-136

  Möller, Sebastian ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRICAL REFLECTIONS; SPEECH SOUND QUALITY; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (SDA);

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 1242352949     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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