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Deep-learning based techniques have contributed to the remarkable progress in the field of automatic image quality assessment (IQA). Existing IQA methods are designed to measure the quality of an image in terms of Mean Opinion Score (MOS)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Wook-Hyung Kim , Cheul-hee Hahm , Anant Baijal , Namuk Kim , Ilhyun Cho , Jayoon Koo

Automatic speech quality assessment plays a crucial role in the development of speech synthesis systems, but existing models exhibit significant performance variations across different granularity levels of prediction tasks. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xintong Hu , Yixuan Chen , Rui Yang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan

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 proposes a dual-stage, low complexity, and reconfigurable technique to enhance the speech contaminated by various types of noise sources. Driven by input data and audio contents, the proposed dual-stage speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Jun Yang , Nico Brailovsky

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

Learning based image quality assessment (IQA) models have obtained impressive performance with the help of reliable subjective quality labels, where mean opinion score (MOS) is the most popular choice. However, in view of the subjective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Lei Wang , Qingbo Wu , Desen Yuan , King Ngi Ngan , Hongliang Li , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu

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. The conventional and widely used metrics require a reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Chandan K A Reddy , Vishak Gopal , Ross Cutler

The rapid proliferation of AI-Generated Content (AIGC) has necessitated robust metrics for perceptual quality assessment. However, automatic Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction models are often compromised by data scarcity, predisposing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Kuan-Tang Huang , Chien-Chun Wang , Cheng-Yeh Yang , Hung-Shin Lee , Hsin-Min Wang , Berlin Chen

Assessing the perceptual quality of synthetic speech is crucial for guiding the development and refinement of speech generation models. However, it has traditionally relied on human subjective ratings such as the Mean Opinion Score (MOS),…

Background noise is a major source of quality impairments in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) calls. Recent work shows the efficacy of deep learning for noise suppression, but the datasets…

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…

Speech Quality Assessment (SQA) and Continuous Speech Emotion Recognition (CSER) are two key tasks in speech technology, both relying on listener ratings. However, these ratings are inherently biased due to individual listener factors.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Cheng-Hung Hu , Yusuke Yasuda , Akifumi Yoshimoto , Tomoki Toda

Objective estimators of multimedia quality are often judged by comparing estimates with subjective "truth data," most often via Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) or mean-squared error (MSE). But subjective test results contain noise, so…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Jaden Pieper , Stephen D. Voran

The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is fundamental to speech quality assessment. However, its acquisition requires significant human annotation. Although deep neural network approaches, such as DNSMOS and UTMOS, have been developed to predict MOS…

Multimodal large language models have demonstrated strong ability in capturing semantic representations for multimodal sentiment analysis. Their capacity to learn stable and generalizable multimodal features is limited, however, by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiazhang Liang , Jianheng Dai , Miaosen Luo , Menghua Jiang , Sijie Mai

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

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to infer human sentiment from textual, acoustic, and visual signals. In real-world scenarios, however, multimodal inputs are often compromised by dynamic noise or modality missingness. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yitong Zhu , Yuxuan Jiang , Guanxuan Jiang , Bojing Hou , Peng Yuan Zhou , Ge Lin Kan , Yuyang Wang

Automatic speech quality assessment aims to quantify subjective human perception of speech through computational models to reduce the need for labor-consuming manual evaluations. While models based on deep learning have achieved progress in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhicheng Lian , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Automatic speech quality assessment is an important, transversal task whose progress is hampered by the scarcity of human annotations, poor generalization to unseen recording conditions, and a lack of flexibility of existing approaches. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Joan Serrà , Jordi Pons , Santiago Pascual

Human perception has the unique ability to focus on specific events in a mixture of signals--a challenging task for existing non-intrusive assessment methods. In this work, we introduce semi-intrusive assessment that emulates human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Jozef Coldenhoff , Milos Cernak