Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2008, 10(4):11-14 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2008.4.11-14

How Do Non-Native Listeners Perceive Quality of Transmitted Voice?

Lubica Blaskova1, Jan Holub1
1 Department of Measurement, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

This paper describes the test methodology and results of speech transmission quality testing in the environment of non-native listeners; it means the communication language differs from the mother tongue of the test subjects. The tests were carried out based on ITU-T P.800 on a database of English speech samples affected by various coding distortions and background noise conditions. The subjects were pre-tested on their English proficiency. The subjective test results confirm a systematic and repeatable shift in subjective quality assessment performed by non-native listeners.

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Blaskova, L., & Holub, J. (2008). How Do Non-Native Listeners Perceive Quality of Transmitted Voice? Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 10(4), 11-14. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2008.4.11-14
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