What is "psqm"

PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measure) is a computational and modeling algorithm defined in ITU Recommendation ITU-T P.861 that objectively evaluates and quantifies voice quality of voice-band (300 – 3400 Hz) speech codecs. It may be used to rank the performance of these speech codecs with differing speech input levels, talkers, bit rates and transcodings. The ITU-T has Withdrawn P.861 and replaced it with P.862 ( PESQ) which contains an improved speech assessment algorithm.