Integral and diagnostic speech-quality measurement: State of the art, problems, and new approaches

Forum Acusticum Budapest 2005: 4th European Congress on Acustics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1695-1700

  Heute, U ^a   Moller S ^b   Raake, A ^c   Scholz, K ^a   Waltermann M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY INDICES; QUALITY OF SPEECH; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84864577046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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