• DocumentCode
    2081825
  • Title

    The measurement of audio-codec sound quality

  • Author

    Bucci, Giovanni ; Franciosi, Federico ; Valocchi, Pietro

  • Author_Institution
    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Localita Monteluco, L´´Aquila, Italy
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    1996
  • Firstpage
    622
  • Abstract
    One of the most difficult issues about audio-codec design and evaluation is the analysis of the reproduced sound quality. Standard measurements (such as the signal-to-noise ratio) aren´t adequate to make an accurate comparison between different codecs due to the masking phenomena of the human ear. The aim of this paper is to propose a simple objective test for the measurement of the coding distortion in analysis-by-synthesis codecs
  • Keywords
    acoustic variables measurement; audio equipment; electric distortion measurement; signal processing; speech codecs; speech coding; time-domain analysis; analysis; audio-codec sound quality; coding distortion; design; human ear; masking; objective test; reproduced sound quality; standard measurement; Audio coding; Codecs; Computational complexity; Ear; Frequency; Humans; Measurement standards; Psychoacoustic models; Testing; World Wide Web;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1996. IMTC-96. Conference Proceedings. Quality Measurements: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality., IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Brussels
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3312-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IMTC.1996.507457
  • Filename
    507457