CONTENTS

 1     Introduction      
 2     Normative references       
 3     Abbreviations   
 4     Scope 
 5     Convention
 6     Requirements on speech signals to be assessed     
 7     Overview of P.563          
        7.1     Vocal tract analysis and unnaturalness of speech     
        7.2     Analysis of strong additional noise  
        7.3     Interruptions, mutes and time clipping         
        7.4     Distortion classification       
 8     Comparison between objective and subjective scores       
        8.1     Correlation coefficient        
 9     High level description of the functional blocks used in P.563         
        9.1     Description of basic speech descriptors and the signal pre-processing         
        9.2     Description of the functional block 'Vocal tract analysis and Unnatural Voice'          
        9.3     Description of the functional block 'Additive Noise'
        9.4     Description of the 'Mutes/Interruptions' functional block components          
        9.5     Description of the Speech Quality Model   
Annex A – Source code for reference implementation and conformance tests    
        A.1     List of files provided for the ANSI-C reference implementation      
        A.2     List of files provided for conformance validation     
        A.3     Speech files provided for validation with variable delay      
        A.4     Conformance data sets      
        A.5     Conformance requirements
        A.6     Conformance test on unknown data