Title :
Assessment of speech quality degradation indicators for “continuity” dimension in super wideband telephony context
Author :
Tiemounou, S. ; Le Bouquin Jeannes, Regine ; Barriac, V.
Author_Institution :
Orange Labs. - Lannion, Lannion, France
Abstract :
This paper presents a study about the performance of Quality Degradation Indicators (QDIs) developed to diagnose and quantify the effect of time-varying degradations pertaining to the “Continuity” dimension of voice quality in the context of Super wideband (50-14000 Hz) telephony. This dimension is subdivided into three sub-dimensions: Interruptedness, Additive Artifacts and Musical Noise. In this work, only the two first sub-dimensions were considered. Our analysis concluded on the reliability of some indicators and particularly of an indicator designed to quantify the impact of short interruptions. The other sub-dimensions need supplementary investigation to be accurately modeled.
Keywords :
speech processing; telephony; QDI; additive artifact subdimension; continuity dimension; frequency 50 Hz to 14000 Hz; interruptedness subdimension; musical noise subdimension; speech quality degradation assessment; superwideband telephony context; time-varying degradation; voice quality; Additives; Context; Correlation; Degradation; Noise; Reliability; Speech; Super wideband (SWB) telephony; objective models; perceptual dimensions; voice quality degradation indicators;
Conference_Titel :
Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5287-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5286-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504215
