Possible Uses For Speech and Audio

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• In IP-telephony applications, at both end-user sides, this tool can be used to monitor in real time the received audio quality. In this way, each user can know how the other user hears what he/she sends and receives.
• At the client side of the streaming audio applications (Internet Radios).
• Based on the quality measurement using this tool, the operators can use it as criteria for billing.
• As the technology of IP telephony improves in these days, constructors can implement hardware version of this tool and integrate it in the IP-telephone set. In fact, one of the advantages of using the NN is that once we get a working software model that can assess the audio quality in real time, the hardware version can be built easily.
• The applications that transmit the audio on packet network can use this tool to negotiate for the best configuration to give the best quality. For example, changing the bit rate, using another codec, changing the packetization interval, using some kind of FEC, changing the playback buffer size, etc. are possible decisions that can be taken to improve the quality or even to maintain a certain level of the quality.