Non-intrusive single-ended speech quality assessment in VoIP

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 477-489

  Ding, Lijing ^a   Lin, Zhong ^a   Radwan, Ayman ^b   El Hennawey, Mohamed Samy ^c   Goubran, Rafik A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Non intrusive model; Objective method; Quality prediction model; Speech quality; Voice over Internet protocol

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PACKET LOSS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

NON INTRUSIVE MODELS; QUALITY PREDICTION MODELS; SPEECH QUALITY; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34249982899     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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