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Perceptual evaluation of speech quality – PESQ

Spearline Testing

This may be due to the telephone networks originating as government utilities under the PTT banner – Post, Telegraph, Telephone. 862, PESQ arrived in 2001. It analyzes the speech signal and provides an end-to-end quality assessment for a network or characterizes individual network components.

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Sound opinions and the PESQ evolution

Spearline Testing

This may be due to the telephone networks originating as government utilities under the PTT banner - Post, Telegraph, Telephone; with the private sector investing more and taking more risk in development. 862, PESQ was introduced in 2001. Our telephone conversations have not evolved at the same rate, some might argue.

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- Downtrends in City Tech

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Steve Ferguson, the new CIO in San Jose , reports that City has experienced nine straight years of cuts and reductions, starting with the dot-com bust which hit Silicon Valley in 2001. Steve Reneker, CIO of Riverside reports his City cut its technology staffing from 72 to 55 people and scrapped a VoIP project.