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Evaluating VoLTE Voice Quality in LTE Networks

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Voice communication is largely used nowadays by LTE phone users, despite introduction of many Apps on the market. Therefore, mobile voice call quality assessment is still an important metric to evaluate for mobile carriers. Research in assessing speech and voice quality mainly focuses on audio clips analysis. POLQA (standing for Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Assessment) is the standard for voice quality evaluation, taking audio clips as the input and giving an objective quality evaluation.

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Ouyang, Y., Hu, M., Huet, A., Li, Z. (2018). Evaluating VoLTE Voice Quality in LTE Networks. In: Mining Over Air: Wireless Communication Networks Analytics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92312-3_5

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