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In this study, we propose a cross-domain multi-objective speech assessment model called MOSA-Net, which can estimate multiple speech assessment metrics simultaneously. Experimental results show that MOSA-Net can improve the linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Szu-Wei Fu , Fei Chen , Chiou-Shann Fuh , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Full-reference (FR) point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) has achieved impressive progress in recent years. However, in many cases, obtaining the reference point clouds is difficult, so no-reference (NR) metrics have become a research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Yipeng Liu , Qi Yang , Yiling Xu , Le Yang

In this paper, we present a full-reference speech quality prediction model with a deep learning approach. The model determines a feature representation of the reference and the degraded signal through a siamese recurrent convolutional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Gabriel Mittags , Sebastian Möller

Speech intelligibility and quality assessment models are essential tools for researchers to evaluate and improve speech processing models. However, only a few studies have investigated multi-task models for intelligibility and quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yu-Wen Chen , Yu Tsao

Speech enhancement, particularly denoising, is vital in improving the intelligibility and quality of speech signals for real-world applications, especially in noisy environments. While prior research has introduced various deep learning…

The vast majority of modern speech enhancement systems rely on data-driven neural network models. Conventionally, larger datasets are presumed to yield superior model performance, an observation empirically validated across numerous tasks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Wei Wang , Robin Scheibler , Kohei Saijo , Samuele Cornell , Yihui Fu , Marvin Sach , Zhaoheng Ni , Anurag Kumar , Tim Fingscheidt , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

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…

With recent research advancements, deep learning models are becoming attractive and powerful choices for speech enhancement in real-time applications. While state-of-the-art models can achieve outstanding results in terms of speech quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Ivan Tashev

As speech generation technology advances, the risk of misuse through deepfake audio has become a pressing concern, which underscores the critical need for robust detection systems. However, many existing speech deepfake datasets are limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wen Huang , Yanmei Gu , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

Automatic coded audio quality assessment is an important task whose progress is hampered by the scarcity of human annotations, poor generalization to unseen codecs, bitrates, content-types, and a lack of flexibility of existing approaches.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Guanxin Jiang , Arijit Biswas , Christian Bergler , Andreas Maier

Audio question answering (AQA) is the task of producing natural language answers when a system is provided with audio and natural language questions. In this paper, we propose neural network architectures based on self-attention and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Tuomas Virtanen

There are many deterministic mathematical operations (e.g. compression, clipping, downsampling) that degrade speech quality considerably. In this paper we introduce a neural network architecture, based on a modification of the DiffWave…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jianwei Zhang , Suren Jayasuriya , Visar Berisha

In the development of spatial audio technologies, reliable and shared methods for evaluating audio quality are essential. Listening tests are currently the standard but remain costly in terms of time and resources. Several models predicting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Adrien Llave , Emma Granier , Grégory Pallone

High-quality audio data is a critical prerequisite for training robust text-to-speech models, which often limits the use of opportunistic or crowdsourced datasets. This paper presents an approach to overcome this limitation by implementing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 José Giraldo , Martí Llopart-Font , Alex Peiró-Lilja , Carme Armentano-Oller , Gerard Sant , Baybars Külebi

Conversational assistants are increasingly popular across diverse real-world applications, highlighting the need for advanced multimodal speech modeling. Speech, as a natural mode of communication, encodes rich user-specific characteristics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Maximillian Chen , Ruoxi Sun , Sercan Ö. Arık

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. This is the 4th DNS challenge, with the previous editions held at INTERSPEECH 2020,…

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. We recently organized a DNS challenge special session at INTERSPEECH 2020. We open…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Chandan K A Reddy , Harishchandra Dubey , Vishak Gopal , Ross Cutler , Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Robert Aichner , Sriram Srinivasan

Improving subjective sound quality of enhanced signals is one of the most important missions in speech enhancement. For evaluating the subjective quality, several methods related to perceptually-motivated objective sound quality assessment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Masaki Kawanaka , Yuma Koizumi , Ryoichi Miyazaki , Kohei Yatabe

In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

Disfluencies is an under-studied topic in NLP, even though it is ubiquitous in human conversation. This is largely due to the lack of datasets containing disfluencies. In this paper, we present a new challenge question answering dataset,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Aditya Gupta , Jiacheng Xu , Shyam Upadhyay , Diyi Yang , Manaal Faruqui