Perceptual Evaluation of
Audio Quality (PEAQ)
In a joint cooperation under the leadership of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),
a group of leading sound quality experts have developed a new measure for sound quality:
PEAQ. In 1999, PEAQ has been defined as the new ITU-R recommendation BS.1387, thus providing an
advanced quality metrics to the world wide audio industry.
About www.peaq.org
www.peaq.org is a new
service brought to you under the mission to spread the world's new standard measure for
sound quality. www.peaq.org will comprise detailed
information on PEAQ, its implementations and applications. This service is provided by
OPTICOM, Germany.
OPTICOM - 'Quality is our
business': Being a pioneer of perceptual quality measurement, OPTICOM has
been providing the latest achievements of standards based quality measurement solutions
for voice and wide-band audio, since 1995. Just to mention NMR, PAQM and PSQM (ITU-T
P.861) as the important ones. Besides PEAQ, OPTICOM will now also significantly promote PESQ (new ITU-T recommendation
P.862), the advanced end-to-end voice quality measure for VoIP and telephony
networks.
