Universal Preference-Score-based Pairwise Speech Quality Assessment

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Main Authors: Shi, Yu-Fei, Ai, Yang, Ling, Zhen-Hua
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author Shi, Yu-Fei
Ai, Yang
Ling, Zhen-Hua
author_facet Shi, Yu-Fei
Ai, Yang
Ling, Zhen-Hua
contents To compare the performance of two speech generation systems, one of the most effective approaches is estimating the preference score between their generated speech. This paper proposes a novel universal preference-score-based pairwise speech quality assessment (UPPSQA) model, aimed at predicting the preference score between paired speech samples to determine which one has better quality. The model first predicts the absolute mean opinion score (MOS) for the two speech samples separately, and then aggregates them into a relative preference score using a preference function. To address the scarcity of preference data, we also construct a new pairwise speech dataset based on a MOS dataset for experiments. Experimental results confirm that, whether in training scenarios with different data types and label conditions, or in both in-domain and out-of-domain test scenarios, the prediction accuracy of UPP-SQA outperforms that of the baseline models, demonstrating its universality.
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Shi, Yu-Fei
Ai, Yang
Ling, Zhen-Hua
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
To compare the performance of two speech generation systems, one of the most effective approaches is estimating the preference score between their generated speech. This paper proposes a novel universal preference-score-based pairwise speech quality assessment (UPPSQA) model, aimed at predicting the preference score between paired speech samples to determine which one has better quality. The model first predicts the absolute mean opinion score (MOS) for the two speech samples separately, and then aggregates them into a relative preference score using a preference function. To address the scarcity of preference data, we also construct a new pairwise speech dataset based on a MOS dataset for experiments. Experimental results confirm that, whether in training scenarios with different data types and label conditions, or in both in-domain and out-of-domain test scenarios, the prediction accuracy of UPP-SQA outperforms that of the baseline models, demonstrating its universality.
title Universal Preference-Score-based Pairwise Speech Quality Assessment
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01455