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Audio quality testing

Gain actionable insights into your solution's audio quality across codecs, bitrates, devices, and network conditions. Benchmark against competitors to understand strengths and weaknesses. Optimize based on real and objective data, not on gut feeling.

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Line graph measuring POLQA under unlimited conditions, showing a Mean Opinion Score of 4.54.

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Achieve audio excellence

To match different use cases, we offer three different audio quality services, starting from one-time audits and ongoing testing activities to competitive analysis and benchmarking.

Testing

See how your solution’s audio quality changes and performs under various conditions. Our specialized audio labs and innovative testing tools allow us to simulate real-world scenarios, measuring performance across diverse network environments and device configurations.

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Echo cancellation and noise suppression

Echo cancellation and noise suppression is key to clear audio communication. We simulate various conditions, like room sizes, speaker setups, and background noise, to assess how well apps reduce echoes and remove unwanted noise.

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Dominant speaker detection

Dominant speaker detection simulates network limitations to test the accuracy of active speaker detection algorithms. It evaluates how well solutions can visually identify the dominant speaker and sync with audio queues.

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Competitive analysis and benchmarking

Compare audio quality against industry standards and competitors using our competitive analysis and benchmarking services. Identify strengths and weaknesses and use the data to innovate and improve.

Audit

Evaluate the audio quality of your solution. See how it performs under different conditions, like changes to network and device configurations, and find out how it compares to competitors.

Get brief insights into:

  • Your app's audio performance
  • How your app stacks against competition

Approach

Full and no-reference audio evaluation

Evaluate audio quality and gain actionable insights using our flexible approach, tailored to the specific needs of your project. Set your product apart and set your growth in motion.

Full-reference evaluation of audio quality using reference audio.
Text box displaying a POLQA score of 4.75 for reference audio.
Full-reference evaluation of audio quality using degraded audio.
Text box displaying a POLQA score of 3.2 for degraded audio.
Full-reference evaluation of echo cancellation.
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Full-reference evaluation

Use full-reference audio evaluation to compare your audio against the original file to precisely identify degradations during compression, transmission, and playback. This approach is ideal for lab-based diagnostic testing.

  • Diagnose issues like packet drops, changes in frequency responses, distortions, and parameter misconfigurations
  • Quantify quality degradations by comparing to a reference
  • Test advanced features like echo cancellation and noise suppression
Table displaying metrics for a degraded audio file: Peak, True Peak, Clips, TP Clips, LUFS-I and LRA.
Graph depicting no-reference evaluation of audio quality for an audio file between 0-12 seconds.
Line graph showing a no-reference evaluation of audio quality using LUFS-M, LUFS-S, LUFS-I and LRA metrics.

No-reference evaluation

Assess perceived audio quality without needing the original source files, which is useful when references are unavailable or when human perception is a priority.

  • Analyze distortion, dynamics, loudness, and clipping
  • Evaluate real-time audio where reference is unavailable
  • Conduct large-scale analysis of real user data
  • Monitor live services and user experiences
  • Identify quality issues affecting users

Outcomes

All the metrics you need

Make data-driven improvements, enhance user experience, and stay ahead of the competition by receiving a test report with metrics that cover different aspects of your audio quality.

Custom metrics

AQTDL

A no-reference audio quality assessment tool used to evaluate a wide range of audio technologies.

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A speech quality metric used to measure the intelligibility of audio in real-world scenarios.
An evaluation of audio quality using AQTDL, measuring noise, speech and music, with an MOS of 4.5.

Custom metrics

SpeechQ

A speech quality metric used to measure the intelligibility of audio in real-world scenarios.

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An evaluation of speech quality using SpeechQ, showing various metrics and scores.

Industry-standard metrics

POLQA

Full reference audio quality measurement standard.

ViSQOL

Objective, full reference metric developed by Google.

MOS

Using MUSHRA test methodology.

Audio Delay

End-to-end latency between sent and received signal.

Synchronization

Latency metric to measure audio video sync.

Sampling rate

Determines the range of frequencies in the audio.

Audio Bitrate

Amount of audio data transferred per second.

Loudness

Includes metrics such as RMS and LUFS.

Network simulation

Replicate real-world scenarios

Ensure your product delivers consistently high performance in real-world use cases. Using extensive network conditioning, we can find out how your audio quality adapts to changing and unpredictable environments.

  • Bandwidth

    See how your audio quality holds up in varying network conditions by introducing bandwidth changes that allow us to simulate the speed and quality of the network.

  • Packet loss

    Discover how your audio performs under unstable networks and congestion by simulating packet loss during data transmission.

  • Delay

    Address time-based issues and ensure smooth communication between sender and receiver by introducing latency in data transmission.

  • Jitter

    Test the resilience of your audio to network congestion and ensure signal stability by simulating variations in packet arrival times.

  • Disconnections

    Find out how your solution responds to sudden network interruptions—short and long—and how disconnections impact hardware and software.

  • Congestions

    Evaluate the ability of your solution to maintain audio quality under heavy usage and various network conditions by simulating congestions.

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Coverage

Audio quality checks for all app types

Deliver the best audio experience possible. We assess all types of audio solutions that use and rely on audio, focusing on crucial aspects such as audio fidelity, compression, and artifacts to ensure optimal performance.

  • Audio conferencing
  • Streaming
  • Short-form media
  • Content creation
  • Real-time communications
  • Audio-on-demand

Test Results

Actionable data that drives continuous improvement

Get a complete overview of audio and video quality. Our comprehensive reports provide everything you need to analyze, optimize, and enhance your audio and video performance.

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Platforms

Superior audio quality across all platforms

Benchmark audio quality across all major platforms. Utilize our device lab with 5000+ real devices and simulate real-world network conditions. Get comprehensive insights into how your solution performs on any platform or use case.

  • Mobile apps
  • Desktop apps
  • Web apps
  • VR apps
  • Smart speakers
  • Conferencing solutions
  • TV apps

Workflow

A fast and secure approach to audio quality testing

With over a decade of business experience in quality assurance and project management, our team has developed a structured workflow that ensures efficient audio quality testing and actionable reporting.

Deliver the quality your users deserve!

Join world-class companies in paving the way for quality audio and video experiences.

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