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Analyzing Voice Quality in Popular VoIP Applications
January-March 2009 (vol. 16 no. 1)
pp. 46-59
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Batu Sat, Benjamin W. Wah, "Analyzing Voice Quality in Popular VoIP Applications," IEEE Multimedia, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 46-59, January-March, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MMUL.2009.2,
author = {Batu Sat and Benjamin W. Wah},
title = {Analyzing Voice Quality in Popular VoIP Applications},
journal ={IEEE Multimedia},
volume = {16},
number = {1},
issn = {1070-986X},
year = {2009},
pages = {46-59},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MMUL.2009.2},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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KW - Conversational speech quality
KW - VoIP
KW - subjective evaluation
KW - Comparative Category Rating
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Batu Sat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This article presents a technique for comparing the speech quality of VoIP systems on networks suffering from congestion.

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Index Terms:
Conversational speech quality, VoIP, subjective evaluation, Comparative Category Rating, play-out scheduling, loss concealment, interactivity, conversational efficiency, real-time multimedia communication.
Citation:
Batu Sat, Benjamin W. Wah, "Analyzing Voice Quality in Popular VoIP Applications," IEEE Multimedia, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 46-59, Jan.-March 2009, doi:10.1109/MMUL.2009.2
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