Measurement of the effects of temporal clipping on speech quality

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1135-1138

  Lijing, Ding ^a   El Hennawey, Mohamed Samy ^b   Goubran, Rafik A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mean opinion score; Nonintrusive method; Speech quality prediction; Temporal clipping; Voice activity detection; Voice over internet protocol

Indexed keywords

MEAN OPINION SCORE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NONINTRUSIVE METHODS; SPEECH QUALITY PREDICTION; TEMPORAL CLIPPING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL;

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR CORRECTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIMITERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33847092437     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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