2008-04-07 - CINI-UoN will host the next ETSI STQ technical committee meeting

CINI-UoN will host the next ETSI STQ technical committee meeting from 7th April to 11th April 2008.

STQ (http://portal.etsi.org/stq/Summary.asp) is ETSI’s technical committee for Speech, Transmission Planning, and Quality of Service. It was formed in 1997 combining interests from the former BTC2, TE4 and TM5 areas of ETSI. It was intended initially as a centre of expertise on speech quality issues but has broadened its scope to handle more general quality issues.

STQ has over 100 members several of whom also play leading roles in ITU-T. One of the vice chairmen Jean-Yves Monfort from France Telecom is the chairman of SG12, another vice-chairman, Klemens Adler from Vodafone, is one of the two vice chairmen of SG12 and the chairman of the Working Group STQ MOBILE. The third vice-chairman is Joachim Pomy from Tenovis, he is also the vice-chairman of TISPAN WG5.

STQ has three main areas of activity:
- Speech quality and end-to-end speech transmission performance
- General quality of service parameters for fixed and mobile networks
- Distributed speech recognition algorithms (the Aurora project)