Performance Study of Objective Speech Quality Measurement for Modern Wireless-VoIP Communications. (18th October 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Falk, Tiago H.; Chan, Wai-Yip
• Other Names: Kates James Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: EURASIP journal on audio, speech, and music processing. Volume 2009(2009)
• Publication Date: 2009-10-18
• Subjects: Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques -- Periodicals; Computer sound processing -- Periodicals; Computer sound processing; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques; Periodicals; Electronic journal; Electronic journals; 620.2
• DOI: 10.1155/2009/104382
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-4714

Abstract

Abstract : Wireless-VoIP communications introduce perceptual degradations that are not present with traditional VoIP communications. This paper investigates the effects of such degradations on the performance of three state-of-the-art standard objective quality measurement algorithms—PESQ, P.563, and an "extended" E-model. The comparative study suggests that measurement performance is significantly affected by acoustic background noise type and level as well as speech codec and packet loss concealment strategy. On our data, PESQ attains superior overall performance and P.563 and E-model attain comparable performance figures.