Speech quality in modern Telecommunications
Ute Jekosch · Hispana · 2002
In the context of telecommunications one of the most important measuring objects is speech quality. Apart from communicative aspects (e.g., way of speaking, listening and interacting behaviour) speech quality can be affected by a number of system parameters of a modern telecommunication service. These parameters are, for example, related to the transmission line (e.g., coders or packet losses), to terminals (e.g., handsets, head-sets, hands-free terminals) and also to new speech technology devices being coupled to transmission systems and terminals (e.g., speech synthesisers, speech recognisers, dialogue systems). In all these cases the quality of the transmitted speech signal depends on these individual system elements and their integration into a telecommunication service.