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

Assessment and Prediction

22nd and 23rd June 2005 - Mainz, Germany

Workshop Programme and Presentations

Wednesday 22nd June 2005

Opening speech
Jean-Yves Monfort - ETSI STQ Chairman
 

Noise simulation and noise reduction
Chaired by Jean-Yves Monfort

High Quality Background Noise Simulation: the ETSI STF 273 Project
Silvia Völl and Hans W. Gierlich - Head acoustics GmbH
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New STF 294 : Improving the quality of eEurope wideband speech applications by developing a standardised performance testing and evaluation methodology for background noise transmission
Jean-Yves Monfort - ETSI STQ Chairman
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Noise Reduction Preprocessing for the Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) Speech Codec
Christophe Beaugeant and Imre Varga - Siemens AG, COM, Munich
Thomas Lotter - Siemens Audiologische Technik, Erlangen
Peter Jax and Peter Vary - RWTH Aachen
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Speech Coders and Quality
Chaired by Hans W. Gierlich

Standardization of the Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) Speech Codec and its Applications
 Imre Varga - Siemens AG, COM, Munich
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On the use of artificial bandwith Extension Techniques in Wideband Speech Communications
Peter Jax and Peter Vary - RWTH Aachen
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A new codec within ITU-T: new bandwidth
Catherine Quinquis - France Telecom R&D
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A Scalable Wideband Speech Codec
Pankaj K. R and Ajit V. Rao - Texas Instruments Ltd India
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Wide-Band speech applications
Chaired by Joachim Pomy

Bandwidth extension of telephone band- limited Speech Signals
 Iser Bernd - Temic sds
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A wideband capable VoIP Chipset called INCA-IP
Frank Meier - Infineon
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Aspects of Wideband Speech in Enterprise Telephony
Eric Diethorn - Avaya Labs, NJ
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Demos
 

Thursday 23rd June 2005

Speech Quality Assessment/Prediction
Chaired by Volker Sypli

Quality Dimensions of Narrow-Band and Wideband Telephone Connections
Marcel Wältermann, and Sebastian Möller - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Alexander Raake - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay
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Perceptual Wideband Audio Quality Assessments Using PEAQ
Christian Schmidmer - Opticom
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Speech Quality in Cellular Networks – More or Less than GSM EFR
Jens Berger - Swissqual
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Background Noise Transmission Quality for Wideband Systems
Silvia Völl, Hans W. Gierlich and Frank Kettler - Head acoustics GmbH
Peter Jax - RWTH Aachen
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Round Table including a review of the results of Mesaqin Conference (J. Holub) http://wireless.feld.cvut.cz/mesaqin
Chaired by Jean-Yves Monfort