The benefits of multi-speaker conferencing and the design of conference bridge control algorithm

Author

Tardelli, J.D. ; Gatewood, P.D. ; Kreamer, E.W. ; La Follette, P. A La

Author_Institution

ARCON Corp., Waltham, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1993

fDate

27-30 April 1993

Firstpage

435

Abstract

The authors examine the benefits to be gained with a multispeaker narrowband conference capability and design parameters for such a system. Subjective opinions on 18 conferencing systems by 16 subjects, audio recordings of input and output channels for each subject and system, and data files that detail the speech activity and channel switch settings for each subject and system every 50 ms have been provided. An important conferencing objective or conference type effect has been found: for different types of discussion the speech dynamics and system requirements are substantially different. Various speech/bridge dynamic states are evaluated. The percent time that the system is in these states is provided along with interval distributions.<>

Keywords

control system synthesis; speech coding; telecommunication channels; telecommunications computer control; teleconferencing; audio recordings; benefits; channel switch settings; conference bridge control algorithm; data files; design; interval distributions; multispeaker narrowband conference capability; speech activity; speech/bridge dynamic states;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1993. ICASSP-93., 1993 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN, USA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7402-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1993.319333

Filename

319333