Preface; How This Manual Is Organized - OPTICOM OPERA - V 3.5 User Manual

P R E F A C E

PREFACE

A Brief How-to Guide to this Manual and How to
Get More Information and Support.
W
e are delighted to welcome you as our new customer. As you
might know from our company vision -
Especially when it comes to signal quality of speech and wide
band audio signals. Our new OPERA™ system, which is an
abbreviation for Objective Perceptual Analyzer, reflects a new generation
approach, integrating both the latest experience and standards in the research
and development of perceptual based, objective methods for the determination
of signal quality.
We will introduce the basic operation of OPERA™ and give some guidelines on
the most common applications in this manual. This manual, however, is not
meant to substitute research reports, papers and standards documentation.
Where appropriate, we will refer to the corresponding literature indicated by a
number in squared brackets.

How this Manual is Organized

This manual is organized in seven chapters.
Chapter 1, "Introduction"
will learn about the ideas behind this measurement tool and get an overview of
the OPERA™ product family.
, titled
Chapter 2 "Test Methodology"
knowledge about perceptual measurements. This chapter is meant to guide you
to the correct measurement for all the applications you might want to use your
OPERA™ system with.
Chapter 3, "Installation and Setup",
procedure and inform you of the hardware requirements if you are using either
the OPERA™ Software Suite or the OPERA™ Toolkit. It is important to read this
chapter carefully when you unpack and install your OPERA™ system for the first
time.
Chapter 4, "Getting to Know The OPERA™ Framework"
concept and explain the operation of the framework program. The framework is
, will briefly explain the OPERA™ measurement. You
, provides you with the necessary basic
will guide you through the installation
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, will outline the basic
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