A hybrid signal-and-link-parametric approach to single-ended quality measurement of packetized speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 841-844

  Falk, Tiago H ^a   Yuan, Hua ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kullback leibler distance; Packet loss concealment; Quality measurement; VoIP

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET LOSS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; PACKET LOSS CONCEALMENT; QUALITY MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL BASED METHODS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34547523302     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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