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Conversational Quality Measurement System for Mobile VoIP Speech Communication

모바일 VoIP 음성통신을 위한 대화음질 측정 시스템

  • 조재만 (광운대학교 전자융합공학과) ;
  • 김형국 (광운대학교 전자융합공학과)
  • Received : 2011.01.10
  • Accepted : 2011.07.29
  • Published : 2011.08.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a conversational quality measurement (CQM) system for providing the objective QoS of high quality mobile VoIP voice telecommunication. For measuring the conversational quality, the VoIP telecommunication system is implemented in two smart phones connected with VoIP. The VoIP telecommunication system consists of echo cancellation, noise reduction, speech encoding/decoding, packet generation with RTP (Real-Time Protocol), jitter buffer control and POS (Play-out Schedule) with LC (loss Concealment). The CQM system is connected to a microphone and a speaker of each smart phone. The voice signal of each speaker is recorded and used to measure CE (Conversational Efficiency), CS (Conversational Symmetry), PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) and CE-CS-PESQ correlation. We prove the CQM system by measuring CE, CS and PESQ under various SNR, delay and loss due to IP network environment.

본 논문에서는 고품질 모바일 VoIP 음성통신에 대한 객관적인 QoS를 제공하는 대화음질 측정시스템을 구현하였다. 대화음질 측정을 위해서 VoIP로 연결된 두 대의 스마트폰에 에코 및 잡음 제거, 음성 인코딩 및 디코딩, RTP (Real-TimeProtocol)을 적용한 패킷 생성, 지터버퍼 콘트롤, LC (Loss Concealment)를 포함한 POS (Play-out Schedule)로 구성된 VoIP음성 통화시스템을 구현하였다. 대화음질 측정 시스템은 VoIP로 연결된 두 스마트폰의 마이크, 그리고 스피커와 연결되어 각 화자별로 음성신호를 녹음한 후에, 녹음된 음성신호를 이용하여 CE (Conversational Efficiency), CS (Conversational Symmetry) 및 PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality)를 측정하고, CE-CS-PESQ에 대한 상관관계를 측정한다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 SNR, IP 네트워크망 변동에 따른 지연, 손실 변화에 따른 CE, CS, PESQ를 측정하여 대화음질 측정시스템을 검증하였다.

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