Measurement of the effects of temporal clipping on speech quality

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1197-1203

  Ding, Lijing ^a   Radwan, Ayman ^b   El Hennawey, Mohamed Samy ^c   Goubran, Rafic A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mean opinion score (MOS); Nonintrusive method; Quality of experience (QoE); Speech quality; Temporal clipping; Voice activity detection (VAD); Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MEAN OPINION SCORE (MOS); SPEECH QUALITY; TEMPORAL CLIPPING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD); VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP);

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33746373488     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.876538     Document Type: Article

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