When should a speech coding quality increase be allowed within a talk-spurt?

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8149-8153

  Voran, Stephen D ^a   Catellier, Andrew A ^a  

^a Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

AMR; SILK; speech bandwidth; speech coding; speech quality; subjective testing; time varying speech quality

Indexed keywords

AMR; CODING QUALITY; SPEECH CODERS; SPEECH QUALITY; TIME-SCALES; TIME-VARYING SPEECH QUALITY;

BANDWIDTH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILK; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 84890454038     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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