CONTENTS

 

 1     Scope 
 2     References 
 3     Definitions  
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms        
 5     Conventions     
 6     General remarks  
        6.1     Testing factors       
        6.2     Applications          
 7     Characteristics of the reference signals      
        7.1     Length of signal      
        7.2     Active speech        
        7.3     Temporal structure 
        7.4     Active speech level
        7.5     Application of artificial voice          
        7.6     Requirements for speech recordings           
        7.7     Variation in talker and speech content        
        7.8     Leading and trailing silences           
        7.9     Pre-filtering
       7.10     Noise floor           
       7.11     Implementations issues      
 8     Characteristics of the degraded signal to be assessed        
        8.1     Difference in active speech duration between reference and degraded speech signal
        8.2     Active speech level
        8.3     Difference in duration of leading and trailing silence between reference and degraded speech     
 9     Characteristics of signal insertion and capturing paths        
        9.1     Influence of measurement circuits and test configuration in the insertion path
        9.2     Influence of measurement circuits and test configuration in the capture path  
10     Analysis of the results      
       10.1     Averaging the measurement results
       10.2     Reliability of the PESQ measurements' results        
       10.3     Accuracy values of the PESQ measurements         
       10.4     Interpretation of the accuracy's results       
11     Report of results 
12     Guidance for using P.862.2 wideband extension to P.862
13     Use of P.862.1 and P.862.2 use for EVRC type of codecs and evaluation of CDMA networks     
14     Comparing objective with subjective score          
Appendix I – Reference values for objective quality derived by ITU-T Recommendation P.862 for ITU-T/GSM standard codecs     
        I.1        Reference value sources   
        I.2        Pre-processing of source speech  
        I.3        Processing of G.711        
        I.4        Processing of G.726        
        I.5        Processing of G.728, G.729, Annex A/G.729 and G.723.1          
        I.6        Processing of MNRU      
Appendix II – Test databases for P.862/P.862.1     
Appendix III – Report of P.862/P.862.1 measurements     
      III.1     Report and interpretation of the average PESQ results        
      III.2     Report and interpretation of individual PESQ measurement results   
Appendix IV – Calibration method for proprietary interfaces     
       IV.1     Calibration of the transmit level (near end) of the test equipment     
      IV.2      Calibration of the receive level (far end) of the test equipment        
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