Predicting the perceived quality of nonlinearly distorted music and speech signals

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 52, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 699-711

  Tan, Chin Tuan ^b   Moore, Brian C J ^a,b   Zacharov, Nick ^a,c   Mattila, Ville Veikko ^a,c  

^a AES ^*

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

NONLINEARLY DISTORTED MUSIC; PEAK CLIPPING; SPEECH SIGNALS; ZERO CLIPPING;

NONLINEAR DISTORTION;

EID: 4444247040     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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