Quality of transmitted speech for humans and machines

Communication Acoustics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 163-192

  Möller, Sebastian ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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EID: 84887416013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27437-5_7     Document Type: Chapter

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