Analysis of sound data streamed over the network

Jiří Fejfar, Jiří Šťastný, Martin Pokorný, Jiří Balej and Petr Zach
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Jiří Fejfar: Department of Informatic, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Jiří Šťastný: Department of Informatic, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Martin Pokorný: Department of Informatic, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Jiří Balej: Department of Informatic, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Petr Zach: Department of Informatic, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, vol. 61, issue 7, 2105-2110

Abstract: In this paper we inspect a difference between original sound recording and signal captured after streaming this original recording over a network loaded with a heavy traffic. There are several kinds of failures occurring in the captured recording caused by network congestion. We try to find a method how to evaluate correctness of streamed audio. Usually there are metrics based on a human perception of a signal such as "signal is clear, without audible failures", "signal is having some failures but it is understandable", or "signal is inarticulate". These approaches need to be statistically evaluated on a broad set of respondents, which is time and resource consuming. We try to propose some metrics based on signal properties allowing us to compare the original and captured recording. We use algorithm called Dynamic Time Warping (Müller, 2007) commonly used for time series comparison in this paper. Some other time series exploration approaches can be found in (Fejfar, 2011) and (Fejfar, 2012).The data was acquired in our network laboratory simulating network traffic by downloading files, streaming audio and video simultaneously. Our former experiment inspected Quality of Service (QoS) and its impact on failures of received audio data stream. This experiment is focused on the comparison of sound recordings rather than network mechanism.We focus, in this paper, on a real time audio stream such as a telephone call, where it is not possible to stream audio in advance to a "pool". Instead it is necessary to achieve as small delay as possible (between speaker voice recording and listener voice replay). We are using RTP protocol for streaming audio.

Keywords: Dynamic Time Warping; sound signal processing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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