INTERSPEECH 2013 14thAnnual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Lyon, France August 25-29, 2013

Quality Assessment of Asymmetric Multiparty Telephone Conferences: A Systematic Method from Technical Degradations to Perceived Impairments

Janto Skowronek, Julian Herlinghaus, Alexander Raake

T-Labs, Germany

The present paper addresses multiparty telephone conferences with asymmetric quality degradations. We propose a systematic method that allows to investigate how individual technical degradations can lead to the perception of quality impairments by the different interlocutors in a conference call. By conducting this analysis for a number of degradations, a detailed picture on the complexity of assessing asymmetric conditions is drawn, which in turn verifies the need for such strictly systematic assessment approaches.

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Bibliographic reference.  Skowronek, Janto / Herlinghaus, Julian / Raake, Alexander (2013): "Quality assessment of asymmetric multiparty telephone conferences: a systematic method from technical degradations to perceived impairments", In INTERSPEECH-2013, 2604-2608.