Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC wrote:

I've heard a MOS of 4.4 is ulaw/alaw, presumably like a local exchange call through the pstn.

testyourvoip.com tells me that the highest score available with G.729 is 4.2, which is pretty darn close to 4.4.

Alaw and ulaw are about 4.4. ulaw on a robbed bit trunk is about 4.3. G.729 is about 3.9. That doesn't sound like a big spread, but MOS tends to bunch them together. G.729 at 3.9 is pretty reasonable, while anything scoring 3.0 is bloody awful.


I don't know why I think this (or why I've heard it (or if it's right)) but I think gsm is 3.8? Maybe someone can confirm or disconfirm this. This kinda seems like the codec my long distance calls go out on but I'm not really sure.

3.8 sounds about right.


http://www.testyourvoip.com/results.html?id=071GM0&result=0
(one of my more POOR results) approximates about 2.75 for 'tin cans and string', 3.2 for a crummy cell phone call, about 3.9 for a decent cell call, 4.4 or so for 'like calling next door', and the mystical 5.0 for 'better than being there'.

I wonder if 16kHz wideband codecs would bring our voice-carrying experiences into the 5.0 range?

Much of the reason ulaw/alaw is way below 5.0 is due to bandwidth limitations. 16kHz sampling gets much closer to 5.0 It takes more like 32kHz sampling to actually reach 5.0, though.

Steve


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