Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere       
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions            
 6     Overview of the ITU-T P.863 algorithm          
 7     Comparison between objective and subjective scores           
 8     Speech material      
        8.1     Recommendations on source speech material
        8.2     Insertion of source speech material into the system under test              
        8.3     Recommendations on processed and degraded speech material           
        8.4     Special requirements for acoustical captured speech material
        8.5     Acoustical insertion/capture for loudspeaker phones 
        8.6     Technical requirements on signals to be processed by ITU-T P.863        
        8.7     Scores predicted by the model             
 9     Description of the ITU-T P.863 algorithm      
        9.1     Overview       
        9.2     Temporal alignment  
        9.3     Joining sections with constant delay   
        9.4     Sample rate ratio detection   
        9.5     Resampling   
        9.6     Level, frequency response and time alignment pre-processing
        9.7     Perceptual model       
10     Conclusions            
Annex A – Conformance data and conformance tests    
        A.1     List of files provided for conformance validation           
        A.2     Conformance tests    
        A.3     Conversion of sampling rates
        A.4     Digital attachments   
Annex B – Detailed Descriptions of the ITU-T P.863 algorithm in pdf-format    
Appendix I – Reporting of the performance results for the ITU-T P.863 algorithm based on the rmse* metric    
        I.1                  Purpose of this appendix             
        I.2                  Overview           
        I.3                  Performance results for the ITU-T P.863 algorithm            
        I.4                  Scatter plots      
Appendix II – Description of the "full-scale" subjective tests in a super-wideband context conducted for the ITU-T P.863 algorithm training and validation    
       II.1     Database structure and subjects requirement
       II.2     Anchor conditions       
       II.3     Design rules of test conditions for full-scale mandatory tests    
       II.4     Reference and degraded speech material         
       II.5     Transmission and capturing capture of speech material superimposed interlaced with background noises    
       II.6     Transmission and capturing capture of speech material under time warping conditions
       II.7     Subjective test set up for assessing super-wideband speech quality      
       II.8     Limitations in subjective test results   
Appendix III – Prediction of acoustically recorded narrowband speech    
      III.1     Background   
      III.2     Requirements for acoustically recorded speech data to be assessed by ITU-T P.863        
      III.3     Pre-processing of speech and use of ITU-T P.863            
      III.4     Interpretation of results           
      III.5     Example results            
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