We proposed and evaluated a speech packet loss concealment method which predicts lost segments from speech included in packets either before, or both before and after the lost packet. The lost segments are predicted recursively by using linear prediction both in the forward direction from the packet preceding the loss, and in the backward direction from the packet succeeding the lost segment. P...

Fighting packet loss in optical packet-switched networks has been a priority in the optical research community in recent years. In this short paper, we present a scheme which utilizes both forward error correction at the ingress node and in-network coding at intermediary optical packet switches to reduce packet loss due to contention at the network layer. Initial analysis shows that if used in ...

Perceived speech quality is the key metric for QoS for VoIP applications. The primary aims of the study reported in the paper are to carry out a fundamental investigation of the impact of packet loss and talkers on perceived speech quality using an objective method to provide the basis for developing an artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict speech quality for VoIP. The impact of pack...

The aim of this work is to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems operating in burst-like packet loss. First a set of highly artificial packet loss profiles are used to analyse their effect on both recognition performance and on the underlying feature vector stream. This indicates that the simple technique of vector repetition can make the recogniser robust to high percentages of ...

The aim of this work is to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems operating in burst-like packet loss. First a set of highly artificial packet loss profiles are used to analyse their effect on both recognition performance and on the underlying feature vector stream. This indicates that the simple technique of vector repetition can make the recogniser robust to high percentages of ...

In this paper, we propose an improved adaptive muting method using a sigmoid function for the packet loss concealment algorithm of ITU-T G.722 Recommendation. The packet loss concealment algorithm performs an adaptive muting to prevent the generation of unnecessary noise during packet loss recovery. While muting is linearly and discontinuously performed according to packet errors, our muting ap...