Title
Performance improvement of a non-intrusive voice quality metric in lossy networks
Date Issued
2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Federal University of Lavras
Publisher(s)
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Abstract
Voice quality assessment of phone calls is a relevant task for mobile service providers. In this context, the main objective of this research is to provide a model that improves the performance of ITU-T Rec. P.563. To accomplish this objective, the proposed model considers two aspects, better response in lossy network and adequate treatment of silences segments into the audio signal. Thus, a function is determined to suppress silences in the speech signal according to the packet loss rate value. Furthermore, the proposed model is implemented on both a voice quality server and a mobile device. Experimental results show that P.563 algorithm performance was really improved by the proposed model, approximating its results to those given by P.862 algorithm, reaching a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.9957 and a root mean square error of 0.2983. Moreover, subjective test results demonstrated that the proposed model results overcome those obtained by the P.563 algorithm.
Start page
3401
End page
3408
Volume
13
Issue
20
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85077464260
Source
IET Communications
ISSN of the container
17518628
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo under Grants 2015/24496-0 and 2018/26455-8, in part by the Federal University of Lavras, and in part by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
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