Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Voice-quality foundations
- Part II Applications
- Part III Wireless architectures
- Part IV A network operator's guide for selecting, appraising, and testing a VQS
- Part V Managing the network
- Part VI Afterthoughts and some fresh ideas
- Part VII Recordings
- Glossary of common voice-quality systems terminology
- Brief summary of echo cancelation and VQS major standards
- Brief summary of key voice-quality assessment standards
- Bibliography
- Index
Part I - Voice-quality foundations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Voice-quality foundations
- Part II Applications
- Part III Wireless architectures
- Part IV A network operator's guide for selecting, appraising, and testing a VQS
- Part V Managing the network
- Part VI Afterthoughts and some fresh ideas
- Part VII Recordings
- Glossary of common voice-quality systems terminology
- Brief summary of echo cancelation and VQS major standards
- Brief summary of key voice-quality assessment standards
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Part I reviews the major voice codecs, their history, and their relative perceived quality. Voice-coding architectures are the building blocks of transmitted voice. They are the core that shapes the characteristics and quality of transmitted speech. Nevertheless, they are treated in this book only as background to the main subject, which deals with impairments due to transmission architecture and environment, and their corresponding remedies that immunize and repair any potential or actual spoil. Since the effectiveness of the various remedies depends on that underlying coding, it is essential that these designs be understood so that remedies can be fine tuned and customized to suit the particular characteristics of the underlying voice architecture.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006