ANIQUE: An auditory model for single-ended speech quality estimation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 821-831

  Kim, Doh Suk ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Non intrusive estimation; Speech quality

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODEL; NON-INTRUSIVE ESTIMATION; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SIGNALS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

AUDITION;

EID: 27644596289     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851924     Document Type: Article

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