Subjective ratings of instantaneous and gradual transitions from narrowband to wideband active speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4674-4677

  Voran, Stephen D ^a  

^a Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Narrowband speech; Speech coding; Subjective testing; Wideband speech

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); SPEECH CODING;

ABRUPT TRANSITION; CODING DISTORTION; GRADUAL TRANSITION; NARROW BANDS; NARROWBAND SPEECH; NETWORK RESOURCE; SUBJECTIVE RATING; TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND SPEECH;

SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

EID: 78049399362     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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