Low-complexity, nonintrusive speech quality assessment

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1948-1956

  Grancharov, Volodya ^a   Zhao, David Y ^b   Lindblom, Jonas ^b,c   Kleijn, W Bastiaan ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonintrusive; Quality assessment; Quality of service (QoS)

Indexed keywords

CODING PARAMETERS; DISTORTION MODELING; LOW COMPLEXITY; NETWORK OPERATORS; NONINTRUSIVE; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS); SPEECH QUALITIES; SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH PROCESSING;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 37549009647     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883250     Document Type: Article

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