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In this paper, we evaluate feature extraction models for predicting speech quality. We also propose a model architecture to compare embeddings of supervised learning and self-supervised learning models with embeddings of speaker…

Non-intrusive speech quality assessment (SQA) systems suffer from limited training data and costly human annotations, hindering their generalization to real-time conferencing calls. In this work, we propose leveraging large language models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Fredrik Cumlin , Xinyu Liang , Anubhab Ghosh , Saikat Chatterjee

Automatic Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction is employed to evaluate the quality of synthetic speech. This study extends the application of predicted MOS to the task of Fake Audio Detection (FAD), as we expect that MOS can be used to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Wangjin Zhou , Zhengdong Yang , Chenhui Chu , Sheng Li , Raj Dabre , Yi Zhao , Tatsuya Kawahara

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

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 quality assessment (SQA) aims to predict the perceived quality of speech signals under a wide range of distortions. It is inherently connected to speech enhancement (SE), which seeks to improve speech quality by removing unwanted…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Wei Wang , Wangyou Zhang , Chenda Li , Jiatong Shi , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

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…

This study compares the performances of different algorithms for coding speech at low bit rates. In addition to widely deployed traditional vocoders, a selection of recently developed generative-model-based coders at different bit rates are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Wissam A. Jassim , Jan Skoglund , Michael Chinen , Andrew Hines

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

Recent work in the domain of speech enhancement has explored the use of self-supervised speech representations to aid in the training of neural speech enhancement models. However, much of this work focuses on using the deepest or final…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 George Close , William Ravenscroft , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

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

Accurate audio quality estimation is essential for developing and evaluating audio generation, retrieval, and enhancement systems. Existing non-intrusive assessment models predict a single Mean Opinion Score (MOS) for speech, merging…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Yi-Cheng Lin , Jia-Hung Chen , Hung-yi Lee

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…

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

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

Non-reference speech quality models are important for a growing number of applications. The VoiceMOS 2022 challenge provided a dataset of synthetic voice conversion and text-to-speech samples with subjective labels. This study looks at the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Michael Chinen , Jan Skoglund , Chandan K A Reddy , Alessandro Ragano , Andrew Hines

Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Szu-Wei Fu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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…

Training of multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems relies on curated datasets based on high-quality recordings or audiobooks. Such datasets often lack speaker diversity and are expensive to collect. As an alternative, recent studies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Sewade Ogun , Vincent Colotte , Emmanuel Vincent

Modern speech synthesis systems have improved significantly, with synthetic speech being indistinguishable from real speech. However, efficient and holistic evaluation of synthetic speech still remains a significant challenge. Human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Dareen Alharthi , Roshan Sharma , Hira Dhamyal , Soumi Maiti , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh