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Speech quality assessment (SQA) aims to evaluate the quality of speech samples without relying on time-consuming listener questionnaires. Recent efforts have focused on training neural-based SQA models to predict the mean opinion score…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuto Kondo , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko

Multimodal AI systems are evaluated by downstream task accuracy, but high accuracy does not mean the underlying data is coherent. A model can score well on Visual Question Answering (VQA) while its inputs contradict each other. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Vasundra Srinivasan

Efficient audio quality assessment is vital for streamlining audio codec development. Objective assessment tools have been developed over time to algorithmically predict quality ratings from subjective assessments, the gold standard for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Pablo M. Delgado , Jürgen Herre

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

Research in modeling subjective metrics for quality assessment has led to the development of no-reference speech models that directly operate on utterance waveforms to predict the Mean Opinion Score (MOS). These models often rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Imran E Kibria , Donald S. Williamson

We have developed reduced reference parametric models for estimating perceived quality in audiovisual multimedia services. We have created 144 unique configurations for audiovisual content including various application and network…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Edip Demirbilek , Jean-Charles Grégoire

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),…

The ability to comprehend audio--which includes speech, non-speech sounds, and music--is crucial for AI agents to interact effectively with the world. We present MMAU, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal audio understanding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 S Sakshi , Utkarsh Tyagi , Sonal Kumar , Ashish Seth , Ramaneswaran Selvakumar , Oriol Nieto , Ramani Duraiswami , Sreyan Ghosh , Dinesh Manocha

This is the summary paper for the AudioMOS Challenge 2025, the very first challenge for automatic subjective quality prediction for synthetic audio. The challenge consists of three tracks. The first track aims to assess text-to-music…

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

Recent research on speech enhancement (SE) has seen the emergence of deep-learning-based methods. It is still a challenging task to determine the effective ways to increase the generalizability of SE under diverse test conditions. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Chiou-Shann Fuh , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

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

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

We present the first edition of the VoiceMOS Challenge, a scientific event that aims to promote the study of automatic prediction of the mean opinion score (MOS) of synthetic speech. This challenge drew 22 participating teams from academia…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen-Chin Huang , Erica Cooper , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda , Junichi Yamagishi

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 is a problem for every researcher working on models that produce or process speech. Human subjective ratings, the gold standard in speech quality assessment, are expensive and time-consuming to acquire in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Lorenz Diener , Marju Purin , Sten Sootla , Ando Saabas , Robert Aichner , Ross Cutler

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

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

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

Interview performance assessment is essential for determining candidates' suitability for professional positions. To ensure holistic and fair evaluations, we propose a novel and comprehensive framework that explores ``365'' aspects of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jia Li , Yang Wang , Wenhao Qian , Jialong Hu , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong , Meng Wang