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Measuring quality and intelligibility of a speech signal is usually a critical step in development of speech processing systems. To enable this, a variety of metrics to measure quality and intelligibility under different assumptions have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Anurag Kumar , Ke Tan , Zhaoheng Ni , Pranay Manocha , Xiaohui Zhang , Ethan Henderson , Buye Xu

The majority of deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement algorithms rely on the mean-square error (MSE) criterion of short-time spectral amplitudes (STSA), which has no apparent link to human perception, e.g. speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Morten Kolbæk , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jesper Jensen

Nowadays, most of the objective speech quality assessment tools (e.g., perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)) are based on the comparison of the degraded/processed speech with its clean counterpart. The need of a "golden" reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Te Hwang , Hsin-Min Wang

Many applications of speech technology require more and more audio data. Automatic assessment of the quality of the collected recordings is important to ensure they meet the requirements of the related applications. However, effective and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Estimating the perceived quality of an audio signal is critical for many multimedia and audio processing systems. Providers strive to offer optimal and reliable services in order to increase the user quality of experience (QoE). In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Anderson R. Avila , Hannes Gamper , Chandan Reddy , Ross Cutler , Ivan Tashev , Johannes Gehrke

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

Environmental audio tagging is a newly proposed task to predict the presence or absence of a specific audio event in a chunk. Deep neural network (DNN) based methods have been successfully adopted for predicting the audio tags in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Qiang Huang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This study presents a machine learning framework for assessing similarity between audio content and predicting sentiment score. We construct a dataset containing audio samples from music covers on YouTube along with the audio of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aris J. Aristorenas

This study addresses the task of performing robust and reliable time-delay estimation in signals in noisy and reverberating environments. In contrast to the popular signal processing based methods, this paper proposes to transform the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Akshay Raina , Vipul Arora

We propose a novel approach for time-scale modification of audio signals. Unlike traditional methods that rely on the framing technique or the short-time Fourier transform to preserve the frequency during temporal stretching, our neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ernie Chu , Ju-Ting Chen , Chia-Ping Chen

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have been improved in terms of speech intelligibility and perceptual quality greatly. Many methods focus on enhancing the amplitude spectrum while reconstructing speech using the mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qinglong Li , Fei Gao , Haixin Guan , Kaichi Ma

The objective speech quality assessment is usually conducted by comparing received speech signal with its clean reference, while human beings are capable of evaluating the speech quality without any reference, such as in the mean opinion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Meng Yu , Chunlei Zhang , Yong Xu , Shixiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Neural audio codecs have gained recent popularity for their use in generative modeling as they offer high-fidelity audio reconstruction at low bitrates. While human listening studies remain the gold standard for assessing perceptual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Florian Grötschla

Traditional Blind Source Separation Evaluation (BSS-Eval) metrics were originally designed to evaluate linear audio source separation models based on methods such as time-frequency masking. However, recent generative models may introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Paul A. Bereuter , Benjamin Stahl , Mark D. Plumbley , Alois Sontacchi

Usually, hearing impaired people use hearing aids which are implemented with speech enhancement algorithms. Estimation of speech and estimation of nose are the components in single channel speech enhancement system. The main objective of…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-11-10 M. Ravichandra Kumar , B. Ravi Teja

In recent decades, neural network based methods have significantly improved the performace of speech enhancement. Most of them estimate time-frequency (T-F) representation of target speech directly or indirectly, then resynthesize waveform…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jingdong Li , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang , Changliang Li

Recent neural network strategies for source separation attempt to model audio signals by processing their waveforms directly. Mean squared error (MSE) that measures the Euclidean distance between waveforms of denoised speech and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Shrikant Venkataramani , Ryley Higa , Paris Smaragdis

This paper aims to address two issues existing in the current speech enhancement methods: 1) the difficulty of phase estimations; 2) a single objective function cannot consider multiple metrics simultaneously. To solve the first problem, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-12 Szu-Wei Fu , Ting-yao Hu , Yu Tsao , Xugang Lu

Evaluating audio generation systems, including text-to-music (TTM), text-to-speech (TTS), and text-to-audio (TTA), remains challenging due to the subjective and multi-dimensional nature of human perception. Existing methods treat mean…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Chien-Chun Wang , Kuan-Tang Huang , Cheng-Yeh Yang , Hung-Shin Lee , Hsin-Min Wang , Berlin Chen

Many deep learning-based speech enhancement algorithms are designed to minimize the mean-square error (MSE) in some transform domain between a predicted and a target speech signal. However, optimizing for MSE does not necessarily guarantee…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Morten Kolbæk , Zheng-Hua Tan , Søren Holdt Jensen , Jesper Jensen