Impairment factor framework for wide-band speech codecs

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1969-1976

  Möller, Sebastian ^a   Raake, Alexander ^a   Kitawaki, Nobuhiko ^b   Takahashi, Akira ^c   Wältermann, Marcel ^d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

E model; Evaluation; Impairment factor; Speech codecs; Wide band speech transmission

Indexed keywords

E-MODEL; EVALUATION; IMPAIRMENT FACTOR; SPEECH CODECS; WIDE-BAND SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE CIRCUITS; TESTING;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34547495383     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883262     Document Type: Article

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