2nd Workshop on Wideband Speech Quality in Terminals and Networks:

Assessment and Prediction

22nd and 23rd June 2005 - Mainz, Germany
 

Recent developments in telecommunications, such as VoIP and UMTS increasingly promote the introduction of new services, including wideband speech communication. Respective work is underway in various standardization bodies; however there is still a lack of standards providing information on the requirements for both wideband terminals and wideband transmission systems. Wideband extensions to the E-Model are currently under discussion; and here, additional input is essential in order to arrive at a consistently modified and properly validated wideband version of the narrowband E-Model.

There will be a huge demand for wideband speech communication in hands-free and video phone applications in the near future. Devices designed for such applications will have to rely on non-linear and time variant signal processing in order to be capable of providing speech quality that satisfies users' demands.

Discussions on a detailed technical level between researchers, developers and standards makers on recent developments and areas of future work are a pre-requisite and necessity for the provisioning of superior speech quality to the users of wideband communication systems.

The workshop key goals are, to:

• provide an overview of most recent developments in wideband speech communications
• discuss in technical detail the general aspects of terminal testing and reference points for wideband terminals
• discuss the requirements for wideband applications that are specific to wireless and VoIP scenarios
• discuss possibilities to integrate non-linear and time variant signal processing into the e-model
• present research and investigations to extend the applicability of the e-model and other relevant standards

This workshop is of major importance to researchers, developers and standards makers in the field of telecommunications, interested in the latest developments in the new generations of speech communication systems.

The workshop is to be held on 22nd and 23rd June 2005 at RegTP premises in Mainz, Germany.

Abstracts and papers should be sent to: STQsupport@etsi.org. Please provide an abstract of no more than 200 words.

This workshop is organised by ETSI Technical Committee (TC) Speech processing, Transmission and Quality Aspects (STQ), for more details go on the ETSI Portal at: http://portal.etsi.org/stq

A first workshop on Wideband Speech Quality in Terminals and Networks has been held last year in Mainz, you can find all the relevant information at: http://portal.etsi.org/stq/workshop2004_files/workshop2004.asp

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