Quality dimensions of narrowband and wideband speech transmission

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1090-1103

  Waltermann M ^a   Raake, A ^a   Moller S ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; NARROW BANDS; QUALITY DIMENSION; QUALITY FEATURES; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; VOICE OVER IP SERVICES; WIDE-BAND;

INTERNET TELEPHONY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78649530915     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918370     Document Type: Article

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