Adaptive Voice Smoothing with Optimal Playback Delay Based on the ITU-T E-Model
نویسندگان
چکیده
Perceived voice quality is mainly affected by IP network impairments such as delay, jitter and packet loss. Adaptive smoothing buffer at the receiving end can compensate for the effects of jitter based on a tradeoff between delay and loss to archive a best voice quality. This work formulates an online loss model which incorporates buffer sizes and applies the ITU-T E-model approach to optimize the delay-loss problem. Distinct from the other optimal smoothers, the proposed optimal smoother suitable for most of codecs carries the lowest complexity. Since the adaptive smoothing scheme introduces variable playback delays, the buffer re-synchronization between the capture and the playback becomes essential. This work also presents a buffer re-synchronization algorithm based on silence skipping to prevent unacceptable increase in the buffer preloading delay and even buffer overflow. Simulation experiments validate that the proposed adaptive smoother archives significant improvement in the voice quality.
منابع مشابه
Adaptive Voice Smoothing with Optimal E-Model Method for VoIP Services
VoIP, one of emerging technologies, offers high quality of real time voice services over IP-based broadband networks; however, the quality of voice would easily be degraded by IP network impairments such as delay, jitter and packet loss, hereon initiate the presence of new technologies to help solve out the problems. Among those, playout buffer at the receiving end can compensate for the jitter...
متن کاملAdaptive Voice Smoother with Optimal Playback Delay for New Generation VoIP Services
Perceived voice quality is a key metric in VoIP applications. The quality is mainly affected by IP network impairments such as delay, jitter and packet loss. Playout buffer at the receiving end can be used to compensate for the effects of jitter based on a tradeoff between delay and loss. Adaptive smoothing algorithms are capable of adjusting dynamically the smoothing time based on the network ...
متن کاملOptimal Adaptive Voice Smoother with Lagrangian Multiplier Method for VoIP Service
VoIPs, emerging technologies, offer high-quality, real-time voice services over IP-based broadband networks. Perceived voice quality is a key metric for VoIP applications that is mainly affected by IP network impairments such as delay, jitter, and packet loss. Playout buffers at the receiving end can compensate for the effects of jitter based on a tradeoff between delay and loss. Adaptive smoot...
متن کاملUsing Context-based Statistical Models to Promote the Quality of Voice Conversion Systems
This article aims to examine methods of optimizing GMM-based voice conversion systems performance in which GMM method is introduced as the basic method for improvement of voice conversion systems performance. In the current methods, due to using a single conversion function to convert all speech units and subsequent spectral smoothing arising from statistical averaging, we will observe quality ...
متن کاملExploring the Extent and Impact of Playout Adjustments within VoIP Applications on the MOS Scale
In coping with best-effort service, many VoIP applications employ adaptive playout strategies. Objective methods of speech quality assessment such as the ITU-T Recommendation P.862 (also known as Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality PESQ) typically do not capture distortion due to playout adjustments as they match up short segments prior to analysis. Similarly, the ITU-T E-Model does not cap...
متن کامل