Short- and long-term packet loss behavior: Towards speech quality prediction for arbitrary loss distributions

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1957-1968

  Raake, Alexander ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

E model; Evaluation; Impairment factor; Packet loss; Speech codecs; Voice over IP (VoIP)

Indexed keywords

E-MODEL; EVALUATION; IMPAIRMENT FACTOR; SPEECH CODECS; VOICE OVER IP (VOIP);

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PACKET LOSS;

EID: 34748913704     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883231     Document Type: Article

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