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Speech Quality Assessment

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The wavelet packet analysis can be used to improve a perceptual-based objective speech quality measure. In this measure, the critical bands of auditory system can be approximated by a predefined wavelet packet (PWP) tree structure.

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Farouk, M.H. (2014). Speech Quality Assessment. In: Application of Wavelets in Speech Processing. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02732-6_5

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