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This position paper argues that Mean Opinion Score (MOS), while historically foundational, is no longer sufficient as the sole supervisory signal for multimedia quality assessment models. MOS reduces rich, context-sensitive human judgments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mohamed Amine Kerkouri , Marouane Tliba , Aladine Chetouani , Nour Aburaed , Alessandro Bruno

We aim to characterize how different speakers contribute to the perceived output quality of multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. We automatically rate the quality of TTS using a neural network (NN) trained on human mean opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jennifer Williams , Joanna Rownicka , Pilar Oplustil , Simon King

Assessing the naturalness of speech using mean opinion score (MOS) prediction models has positive implications for the automatic evaluation of speech synthesis systems. Early MOS prediction models took the raw waveform or amplitude spectrum…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yu-Fei Shi , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

In this paper, we propose a highly efficient method to estimate an image's mean opinion score (MOS) from a single opinion score (SOS). Assuming that each SOS is the observed sample of a normal distribution and the MOS is its unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Lei Wang , Desen Yuan

Mean opinion score (MOS) is a typical subjective evaluation metric for speech synthesis systems. Since collecting MOS is time-consuming, it would be desirable if there are accurate MOS prediction models for automatic evaluation. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Wei-Tsung Kao , Hung-yi Lee

While deep learning has made impressive progress in speech synthesis and voice conversion, the assessment of the synthesized speech is still carried out by human participants. Several recent papers have proposed deep-learning-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Yeunju Choi , Youngmoon Jung , Hoirin Kim

In this paper, we study the task of subjective speech quality assessment (SSQA), which refers to predicting the perceptual quality of speech. Owing to the development of deep neural network models, SSQA has greatly advanced and has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Wen-Chin Huang , Erica Cooper , Tomoki Toda

Explainable speech quality assessment requires moving beyond Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) to analyze underlying perceptual dimensions. To address this, we introduce a novel post-training method that tailors the foundational Audio Large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Elizaveta Kostenok , Mathieu Salzmann , Milos Cernak

Neural TTS has shown it can generate high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, we investigate the multi-speaker latent space to improve neural TTS for adapting the system to new speakers with only several minutes of speech or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yan Deng , Lei He , Frank Soong

We propose MambaRate, which predicts Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) with limited bias regarding the sampling rate of the waveform under evaluation. It is designed for Track 3 of the AudioMOS Challenge 2025, which focuses on predicting MOS for…

We introduce our submission to the AudioMOS Challenge (AMC) 2025 Track 3: mean opinion score (MOS) prediction for speech with multiple sampling frequencies (SFs). Our submitted model integrates an SF-independent (SFI) convolutional layer…

Ensuring that Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems deliver human-perceived quality at scale is a central challenge for modern speech technologies. Human subjective evaluation protocols such as Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Side-by-Side (SBS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ilya Trofimenko , David Kocharyan , Aleksandr Zaitsev , Pavel Repnikov , Mark Levin , Nikita Shevtsov

Speech evaluation measures a learners oral proficiency using automatic models. Corpora for training such models often pose sparsity challenges given that there often is limited scored data from teachers, in addition to the score…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Huayun Zhang , Jeremy H. M. Wong , Geyu Lin , Nancy F. Chen

Text-to-Speech synthesis systems are generally evaluated using Mean Opinion Score (MOS) tests, where listeners score samples of synthetic speech on a Likert scale. A major drawback of MOS tests is that they only offer a general measure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Elijah Gutierrez , Pilar Oplustil-Gallegos , Catherine Lai

This paper introduces a novel objective function for quality mean opinion score (MOS) prediction of unseen speech synthesis systems. The proposed function measures the similarity of relative positions of predicted MOS values, in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Hemant Yadav , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Sunayana Sitaram , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Automatic Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction is crucial to evaluate the perceptual quality of the synthetic speech. While recent approaches using pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown promising results, they only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Hui Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Xiguang Zheng , Yong Qin

In this paper, we propose a multi-label classification framework to detect multiple speaking styles in a speech sample. Unlike previous studies that have primarily focused on identifying a single target style, our framework effectively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Miseul Kim , Seyun Um , Hyeonjin Cha , Hong-goo Kang

The perceptual task of speech quality assessment (SQA) is a challenging task for machines to do. Objective SQA methods that rely on the availability of the corresponding clean reference have been the primary go-to approaches for SQA.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Pranay Manocha , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

In a subjective experiment to evaluate the perceptual audiovisual quality of multimedia and television services, raw opinion scores collected from test subjects are often noisy and unreliable. To produce the final mean opinion scores (MOS),…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Zhi Li , Christos G. Bampis , Lukáš Krasula , Lucjan Janowski , Ioannis Katsavounidis

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models like Wav2Vec2, HuBERT, and WavLM have been widely used in speech processing. These transformer-based models consist of multiple layers, each capturing different levels of representation. While prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Xinyu Liang , Fredrik Cumlin , Victor Ungureanu , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Christian Schuldt , Saikat Chatterjee