Objective assessment methodology for estimating conversational quality in VoIP

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1984-1993

  Takahashi, Akira ^a   Kurashima, Atsuko ^a   Yoshino, Hideaki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conversation; Objective evaluation; Quality assessment; Speech; Subjective quality; Voice over IP (VoIP)

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; VOICE OVER IP (VOIP);

BENCHMARKING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; PLANNING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 39349111955     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883261     Document Type: Article

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