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Non-intrusive assessment of speech quality and intelligibility is essential when clean reference signals are unavailable. In this work, we propose a multimodal framework that integrates audio features and visual cues to predict PESQ and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Shafique Ahmed , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Nasir Saleem , Amir Hussain , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Perceptually-inspired objective functions such as the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR), and short-time objective intelligibility (STOI), have recently been used to optimize performance of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Khandokar Md. Nayem , Donald S. Williamson

Over the past few decades, computational methods have been developed to estimate perceptual audio quality. These methods, also referred to as objective quality measures, are usually developed and intended for a specific application domain.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Matteo Torcoli , Thorsten Kastner , Jürgen Herre

Human subjective evaluation is the gold standard to evaluate speech quality optimized for human perception. Perceptual objective metrics serve as a proxy for subjective scores. We have recently developed a non-intrusive speech quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Chandan K A Reddy , Vishak Gopal , Ross Cutler

Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction (ASQP) aims to predict all quads (aspect term, aspect category, opinion term, sentiment polarity) for a given review, which is the most representative and challenging task in aspect-based sentiment analysis.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yice Zhang , Jie Zeng , Weiming Hu , Ziyi Wang , Shiwei Chen , Ruifeng Xu

Subjective listening tests remain the golden standard for speech quality assessment, but are costly, variable, and difficult to scale. In contrast, existing objective metrics, such as PESQ, F0 correlation, and DNSMOS, typically capture only…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiatong Shi , Hye-Jin Shim , Shinji Watanabe

Objective evaluation of audio processed with Time-Scale Modification (TSM) remains an open problem. Recently, a dataset of time-scaled audio with subjective quality labels was published and used to create an initial objective measure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Timothy Roberts , Kuldip K. Paliwal

Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Szu-Wei Fu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Subjective speech quality assessment is the gold standard for evaluating speech enhancement processing and telecommunication systems. The commonly used standard ITU-T Rec. P.800 defines how to measure speech quality in lab environments, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-15 Babak Naderi , Ross Cutler , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea

Recent years have seen big advances in the field of sentence-level quality estimation (QE), largely as a result of using neural-based architectures. However, the majority of these methods work only on the language pair they are trained on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Tharindu Ranasinghe , Constantin Orasan , Ruslan Mitkov

Methods for automatically assessing speech quality in real world environments are critical for developing robust human language technologies and assistive devices. Behavioral ratings provided by human raters (e.g., mean opinion scores; MOS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Mattson Ogg , Caitlyn Bishop , Han Yi , Sarah Robinson

We participated in track 2 of the VoiceMOS Challenge 2024, which aimed to predict the mean opinion score (MOS) of singing samples. Our submission secured the first place among all participating teams, excluding the official baseline. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yu-Fei Shi , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

Audio quality assessment has been widely researched in the signal processing area. Full-reference objective metrics (e.g., POLQA, ViSQOL) have been developed to estimate the audio quality relying only on human rating experiments. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jack Geraghty , Jiazheng Li , Alessandro Ragano , Andrew Hines

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

Speech quality assessment (SQA) refers to the evaluation of speech quality, and developing an accurate automatic SQA method that reflects human perception has become increasingly important, in order to keep up with the generative AI boom.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wen-Chin Huang

Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Nicolas Chahine , Sira Ferradans , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean Ponce

Speech Quality Assessment (SQA) and Continuous Speech Emotion Recognition (CSER) are two key tasks in speech technology, both relying on listener ratings. However, these ratings are inherently biased due to individual listener factors.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Cheng-Hung Hu , Yusuke Yasuda , Akifumi Yoshimoto , Tomoki Toda

Speech quality assessment (SQA) aims to predict the perceived quality of speech signals under a wide range of distortions. It is inherently connected to speech enhancement (SE), which seeks to improve speech quality by removing unwanted…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Wei Wang , Wangyou Zhang , Chenda Li , Jiatong Shi , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Human judgments obtained through Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) are the most reliable way to assess the quality of speech signals. However, several recent attempts to automatically estimate MOS using deep learning approaches lack robustness and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Pranay Manocha , Anurag Kumar

We introduce SHEET, a multi-purpose open-source toolkit designed to accelerate subjective speech quality assessment (SSQA) research. SHEET stands for the Speech Human Evaluation Estimation Toolkit, which focuses on data-driven deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Wen-Chin Huang , Erica Cooper , Tomoki Toda