Speech quality evaluation: A new application of digital watermarking

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-55

  Cai, Libin ^a,b   Tu, Rounghui ^a   Zhao, Jiying ^a   Mao, Yongyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b bitHeads Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mean opinion score (MOS); Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ); Speech quality evaluation; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

MEAN OPINION SCORE; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847625511     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.887773     Document Type: Article

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