
This book provides a new multi-method, process-oriented approach towards speech quality assessment, which allows readers to examine the influence of speech transmission quality on a variety of perceptual and cognitive processes in human listeners. Fundamental concepts and...

Introduction.- Speech Quality Fundamentals.- Speech Quality Assessment.- Functional Model of Quality Perception.- Discrimination of Speech Quality Change Along Perceptual Dimensions.- Talker Identification Under Varying Speech Quality and Spatialization.- General Discussion and...