An audio quality evaluation of commercial digital radio systems

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 629-635

  Lee, Sewon ^a   Lee, Yong Tae ^b   Seo, Jeongil ^b   Baek, Myung Sun ^b   Lim, Chae Heon ^c   Park, Hochong ^a  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Audio codec; audio quality; digital radio; quality evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CODECS; AUDIO QUALITY; AUDIO SIGNAL; BIT RATES; EVALUATION PROCESS; EVALUATION RESULTS; OPTIMAL CHANNEL CAPACITY; QUALITY EVALUATION; RADIO SERVICES; SECOND PHASE;

AUDIO SYSTEMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIO; RADIO EQUIPMENT; RATING;

DIGITAL RADIO;

EID: 80052054765     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2011.2152910     Document Type: Article

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