Analyzing voice quality in popular VoIP applications

IEEE Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-58

  Sat, Batu ^a   Wah, Benjamin W ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative Category Rating; Conversational efficiency; Conversational speech quality; Data mining; Degradation; Delay; Humans; Interactivity; Jitter; Loss concealment; Play out scheduling; Probability density function; Real time multimedia communication; Speech; Subjective evaluation; VoIP

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE CATEGORY RATING; CONVERSATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH QUALITY; DELAY; HUMANS; INTERACTIVITY; LOSS CONCEALMENT; PLAY-OUT SCHEDULING; REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION; VOIP;

DEGRADATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET TELEPHONY; JITTER; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 64049100232     PISSN: 1070986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMUL.2009.2     Document Type: Article

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