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This article describes an objective speech quality assessment method developed for the Hungarian NMT-450 cellular mobile telephone system. The method is based on a psychoacoustic front end followed by a cognitive modeling component. Special problems of the NMT system, such as handover (HOV), the effects of automatic gain control (AGC), and the intrusion of signaling noise, are addressed in the cognitive module. Correlation between the subjective and objective quality measures is maximized by finding a transformation that linearizes their relationship. A correlation of 0.95 is achieved on an independent test set between the subjective speech quality and the proposed objective quality measure.
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Fegyó, T., Szarvas, M., Tatai, P. et al. Objective Speech Quality Estimation for Analog Mobile Channels: Problems and Solutions. International Journal of Speech Technology 3, 277–287 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026550713198
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