The white paper introduces POLQA v3, the latest evolution of the ITU-T P.863 recommendation released in 2018, which defines an objective perceptual Quality of Experience metric for speech quality assessment. POLQA predicts listening speech quality across narrowband to super‑wideband telecommunications as perceived by users and is widely used to estimate voice Mean Opinion Scores in mobile networks. First standardized in 2011 and refined through multiple revisions, POLQA has become the industry-preferred method for speech quality testing. TEMS has supported POLQA across its tools since 2011, reflecting its broad adoption and importance in modern audio quality measurement solutions.

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