Multi-Channel MOSRA: Mean Opinion Score and Room Acoustics Estimation Using Simulated Data and a Teacher Model

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Autores principales: Coldenhoff, Jozef, Harper, Andrew, Kendrick, Paul, Stojkovic, Tijana, Cernak, Milos
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author Coldenhoff, Jozef
Harper, Andrew
Kendrick, Paul
Stojkovic, Tijana
Cernak, Milos
author_facet Coldenhoff, Jozef
Harper, Andrew
Kendrick, Paul
Stojkovic, Tijana
Cernak, Milos
contents 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, quality-based device selection for rooms with multiple recording devices may benefit from a multi-channel approach where the descriptive metrics are predicted for multiple devices in parallel. Following our hypothesis that a model may benefit from multi-channel training, we develop a multi-channel model for joint MOS and room acoustics prediction (MOSRA) for five channels in parallel. The lack of multi-channel audio data with ground truth labels necessitated the creation of simulated data using an acoustic simulator with room acoustic labels extracted from the generated impulse responses and labels for MOS generated in a student-teacher setup using a wav2vec2-based MOS prediction model. Our experiments show that the multi-channel model improves the prediction of the direct-to-reverberation ratio, clarity, and speech transmission index over the single-channel model with roughly 5$\times$ less computation while suffering minimal losses in the performance of the other metrics.
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spellingShingle Multi-Channel MOSRA: Mean Opinion Score and Room Acoustics Estimation Using Simulated Data and a Teacher Model
Coldenhoff, Jozef
Harper, Andrew
Kendrick, Paul
Stojkovic, Tijana
Cernak, Milos
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
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, quality-based device selection for rooms with multiple recording devices may benefit from a multi-channel approach where the descriptive metrics are predicted for multiple devices in parallel. Following our hypothesis that a model may benefit from multi-channel training, we develop a multi-channel model for joint MOS and room acoustics prediction (MOSRA) for five channels in parallel. The lack of multi-channel audio data with ground truth labels necessitated the creation of simulated data using an acoustic simulator with room acoustic labels extracted from the generated impulse responses and labels for MOS generated in a student-teacher setup using a wav2vec2-based MOS prediction model. Our experiments show that the multi-channel model improves the prediction of the direct-to-reverberation ratio, clarity, and speech transmission index over the single-channel model with roughly 5$\times$ less computation while suffering minimal losses in the performance of the other metrics.
title Multi-Channel MOSRA: Mean Opinion Score and Room Acoustics Estimation Using Simulated Data and a Teacher Model
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11976