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General Conclusion and Outlook

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Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment

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This final chapter closes with a general summary of the main empirical results from the three studies (Chaps. 5, 6, and 7) and gained theoretical insights (Chap. 8). Possible directions for future research are laid out to continue the proposed multi-method, process-oriented approach toward speech quality assessment.

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    Accordingly, in Studies I and II perceived quality had been time-varying for test blocks involving changes from high- to low-quality transmitted speech, and vice versa, within the stimulus sequence. On the contrary, perceived quality in Study III was entirely time-constant, because either high- or low-quality speech files were played back throughout each test block.

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Uhrig, S. (2022). General Conclusion and Outlook. In: Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71389-8_9

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