ANIQUE+: A new American national standard for non-intrusive estimation of narrowband speech quality

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 221-236

  Kim, Doh Suk ^a,b,c   Tarraf, Ahmed ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD; AUDITORY NON-INTRUSIVE QUALITY ESTIMATION PLUS; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEMS; NARROWBAND SPEECH QUALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547286393     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: 15387305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.20228     Document Type: Article

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