Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks

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Autori principali: Close, George, Hain, Thomas, Goetze, Stefan
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Hain, Thomas
Goetze, Stefan
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Hain, Thomas
Goetze, Stefan
contents Within the area of speech enhancement, there is an ongoing interest in the creation of neural systems which explicitly aim to improve the perceptual quality of the processed audio. In concert with this is the topic of non-intrusive (i.e. without clean reference) speech quality prediction, for which neural networks are trained to predict human-assigned quality labels directly from distorted audio. When combined, these areas allow for the creation of powerful new speech enhancement systems which can leverage large real-world datasets of distorted audio, by taking inference of a pre-trained speech quality predictor as the sole loss function of the speech enhancement system. This paper aims to identify a potential pitfall with this approach, namely hallucinations which are introduced by the enhancement system `tricking' the speech quality predictor.
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spellingShingle Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks
Close, George
Hain, Thomas
Goetze, Stefan
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Within the area of speech enhancement, there is an ongoing interest in the creation of neural systems which explicitly aim to improve the perceptual quality of the processed audio. In concert with this is the topic of non-intrusive (i.e. without clean reference) speech quality prediction, for which neural networks are trained to predict human-assigned quality labels directly from distorted audio. When combined, these areas allow for the creation of powerful new speech enhancement systems which can leverage large real-world datasets of distorted audio, by taking inference of a pre-trained speech quality predictor as the sole loss function of the speech enhancement system. This paper aims to identify a potential pitfall with this approach, namely hallucinations which are introduced by the enhancement system `tricking' the speech quality predictor.
title Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11732