It takes two to tango - Assessing the impact of delay on conversational interactivity on perceived speech quality

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1321-1324

  Egger, Sebastian ^a   Schatz, Raimund ^a   Scherer, Stefan ^b  

^a TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conversational interactivity; Delay; QoE

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTIVITY; DELAY; DELAY CONDITION; PERCEIVED QUALITY; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY; TRANSMISSION DELAYS; NETWORK-DELAY; PAPER ANALYSIS; QOE; QUALITY TEST;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959856624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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