Hybrid signal-and-link-parametric speech quality measurement for VOIP communications

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1579-1589

  Falk, Tiago H ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Live call monitoring; Quality impairments; Speech distortions; Speech quality measurement; Voice over internet protocol (VoIP)

Indexed keywords

LIVE CALL MONITORING; QUALITY IMPAIRMENTS; SPEECH DISTORTIONS; SPEECH QUALITY MEASUREMENT; VOICE-OVER-INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DEGRADATION; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MONITORING;

EID: 70350433085     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2004524     Document Type: Article

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