The sound character space of spectrally distorted telephone speech and its impact on quality

Audio Engineering Society - 124th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1418-1426

  Wältermann, Marcel ^a   Raake, Alexander ^a   Möller, Sebastian ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; CENTER FREQUENCY; DOMINATING FACTORS; E-MODEL; ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC; END USERS; LINEAR CHANNEL; OVERALL QUALITY; PERCEIVED QUALITY; SOUND CHARACTERS; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TWO-DIMENSION;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BANDWIDTH; LUMINANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TELEPHONE SETS;

TELEPHONE;

EID: 84866514604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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