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The acoustic environment can degrade speech quality during communication (e.g., video call, remote presentation, outside voice recording), and its impact is often unknown. Objective metrics for speech quality have proven challenging to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Karl El Hajal , Milos Cernak , Pablo Mainar

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

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

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

Wideband codecs such as AMR-WB or EVS are widely used in (mobile) speech communication. Evaluation of coded speech quality is often performed subjectively by an absolute category rating (ACR) listening test. However, the ACR test is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Ziyi Xu , Ziyue Zhao , Tim Fingscheidt

Speech quality assessment has been a critical issue in speech processing for decades. Existing automatic evaluations usually require clean references or parallel ground truth data, which is infeasible when the amount of data soars.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Chien-yu Huang , Wei-Tsung Kao , Yist Y. Lin , Hung-yi Lee

Neural View Synthesis (NVS), such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting, effectively creates photorealistic scenes from sparse viewpoints, typically evaluated by quality assessment methods like PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qiang Qu , Yiran Shen , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Weidong Cai , Tongliang Liu

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

Automatic subjective speech quality assessment (SSQA) traditionally estimates speech quality on an utterance or system level. While this resolution was adequate for older transmission or synthesis systems that produced speech signals of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Michael Kuhlmann , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Speech synthesis quality prediction has made remarkable progress with the development of supervised and self-supervised learning (SSL) MOS predictors but some aspects related to the data are still unclear and require further study. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Alessandro Ragano , Emmanouil Benetos , Michael Chinen , Helard B. Martinez , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Jan Skoglund , Andrew Hines

The estimation of speech intelligibility is still far from being a solved problem. Especially one aspect is problematic: most of the standard models require a clean reference signal in order to estimate intelligibility. This is an issue of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Mahdie Karbasi , Stefan Bleeck , Dorothea Kolossa

Automatic speech quality assessment has become increasingly important as modern speech generation systems continue to advance, while human listening tests remain costly, time-consuming, and difficult to scale. Most existing learning-based…

Designing a speech quality assessment (SQA) system for estimating mean-opinion-score (MOS) of multi-rate speech with varying sampling frequency (16-48 kHz) is a challenging task. The challenge arises due to the limited availability of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Fengyuan Cao , Xinyu Liang , Fredrik Cumlin , Victor Ungureanu , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Christian Schuldt , Saikat Chatterjee

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

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

This paper introduces NoRefER, a novel referenceless quality metric for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Traditional reference-based metrics for evaluating ASR systems require costly ground-truth transcripts. NoRefER overcomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Golara Javadi , Mohamed El-Badrashiny , Ahmet Gunduz

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

Dysarthric speech quality assessment (DSQA) is critical for clinical diagnostics and inclusive speech technologies. However, subjective evaluation is costly and difficult to scale, and the scarcity of labeled data limits robust objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Jaesung Bae , Xiuwen Zheng , Minje Kim , Chang D. Yoo , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

The mean opinion score (MOS) is a standard metric for assessing speech quality, but its singular focus fails to identify specific distortions when low scores are observed. The NISQA dataset addresses this limitation by providing ratings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Fredrik Cumlin , Xinyu Liang , Victor Ungureanu , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Christian Schüldt , Saikat Chatterjee

MOS (Mean Opinion Score) is a subjective method used for the evaluation of a system's quality. Telecommunications (for voice and video), and speech synthesis systems (for generated speech) are a few of the many applications of the method.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Bálint Gyires-Tóth , Csaba Zainkó