Which wideband speech codec? Quality impact due to room-acoustics at send side and presentation method

127th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 153-164

  Raake, Alexander ^a   Wältermann, Marcel ^a   Spors, Sascha ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; LISTENING TESTS; MICROPHONE POSITIONS; NETWORK CONDITION; QUALITY IMPACT; SOURCE MATERIAL; SPEECH CODECS; SPEECH CODERS; SPEECH QUALITY; TANDEMING; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND SPEECH CODEC;

SPEECH CODING;

TESTING;

EID: 84866108366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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