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Previous methods for predicting room acoustic parameters and speech quality metrics have focused on the single-channel case, where room acoustics and Mean Opinion Score (MOS) are predicted for a single recording device. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Jozef Coldenhoff , Andrew Harper , Paul Kendrick , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak

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

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

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

In this paper, we present an update to the NISQA speech quality prediction model that is focused on distortions that occur in communication networks. In contrast to the previous version, the model is trained end-to-end and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Gabriel Mittag , Babak Naderi , Assmaa Chehadi , Sebastian Möller

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…

Mean opinion score (MOS) is a popular subjective metric to assess the quality of synthesized speech, and usually involves multiple human judges to evaluate each speech utterance. To reduce the labor cost in MOS test, multiple methods have…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Frank Soong , Xiang-Yang Li , Tao Qin

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

Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction has made significant progress in specific domains. However, the unstable performance of MOS prediction models across diverse samples presents ongoing challenges in the practical application of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Hui Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Jiaming Zhou , Xiguang Zheng , Haoqin Sun , Xuechen Wang , Yong Qin

Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is a popular measure for evaluating synthesized speech. However, the scores obtained in MOS tests are heavily dependent upon many contextual factors. One such factor is the overall range of quality of the samples…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

The ground truth used for training image, video, or speech quality prediction models is based on the Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) obtained from subjective experiments. Usually, it is necessary to conduct multiple experiments, mostly with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Gabriel Mittag , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Thilo Michael , Babak Naderi , Sebastian Möller

Automatic methods to predict listener opinions of synthesized speech remain elusive since listeners, systems being evaluated, characteristics of the speech, and even the instructions given and the rating scale all vary from test to test.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Erica Cooper , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda , Junichi Yamagishi

This paper proposes an approach to improve Non-Intrusive speech quality assessment(NI-SQA) based on the residuals between impaired speech and enhanced speech. The difficulty in our task is particularly lack of information, for which the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhe Ye , Jiahao Chen , Diqun Yan

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

Modern speech quality prediction models are trained on audio data resampled to a specific sampling rate. When faced with higher-rate audio at test time, these models can produce biased scores. We introduce HighRateMOS, the first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Wenze Ren , Yi-Cheng Lin , Wen-Chin Huang , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Szu-Wei Fu , Sung-Feng Huang , Erica Cooper , Haibin Wu , Hung-Yu Wei , Hsin-Min Wang , Hung-yi Lee , Yu Tsao

There has been significant research effort developing neural-network-based predictors of SQ in recent years. While a primary objective has been to develop non-intrusive, i.e.~reference-free, metrics to assess the performance of SE systems,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 George Close , Kris Hong , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

In online conferencing applications, estimating the perceived quality of an audio signal is crucial to ensure high quality of experience for the end user. The most reliable way to assess the quality of a speech signal is through human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Bastiaan Tamm , Rik Vandenberghe , Hugo Van hamme

Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction for text to music systems requires evaluating both overall musical quality and text prompt alignment. This paper introduces WhisQ, a multimodal architecture that addresses this dual-assessment challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jakaria Islam Emon , Kazi Tamanna Alam , Md. Abu Salek

Predicting audio quality in voice synthesis and conversion systems is a critical yet challenging task, especially when traditional methods like Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) are cumbersome to collect at scale. This paper addresses the gap in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Aditya Ravuri , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

Speech quality assessment (SQA) is often used to learn a mapping from a high-dimensional input space to a scalar that represents the mean opinion score (MOS) of the perceptual speech quality. Learning such a mapping is challenging for many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Junyi Fan , Donald Williamson