Quality assessment of musical and speech signals broadcasted via Single Frequency Network DAB+

Authors

  • Maurycy Jerzy Kin Wrocław University of Science and Technology
  • Stefan Brachmański Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Abstract

Paper presents the results of quality assessment of speech and music signals transmitted via DAB+ system with the use of Single Frequency Network (SFN). The musical signals have been evaluated in overall quality domain. The subjective research was provided with the use of Absolute Category Rating procedure according to the ITU recommendation and the results have been presented as the MOS values for various bit rates. The speech signals were additionally examined with PESQ method. The results have shown that the assumed quality of 4 MOS, for this kind of broadcasting could be achieved at 48 kb/s for speech and 64 kb/s for music. This fact was confirmed by both: subjective and objective research. The comparison between the results obtained for SFN broadcasting with three emitters with single-emitter broadcast has been presented.

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2024-04-19

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Telecommunications