Newly established IEC standard on audio quality measurement of personal computers

K. Kurakata*, M. Furukawa

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A new IEC standard on audio quality measurement of personal computers (PCs) was published in December 2005, entitled IEC 61606-4 "Audio and audiovisual equipment - Digital audio parts - Basic measurement methods of audio characteristics - Part 4: Personal computer." That standard prescribes methods for measuring PC audio quality, taking into account the requirements of measuring conditions of PCs. Furthermore, a new measure of audio signal quality, short-term distortion, was introduced to describe PC-specific noise problems. This paper presents an outline of that standard.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAudio Engineering Society - 120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006
Pages231-234
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2006 Dec 1
Externally publishedYes
Event120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006 - Paris, France
Duration: 2006 May 202006 May 23

Publication series

NameAudio Engineering Society - 120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006
Volume1

Other

Other120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period06/5/2006/5/23

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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