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Main Authors: Jia, Yuhang, Wang, Hui, Nie, Xin, Guo, Yujie, Gao, Lianru, Qin, Yong
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11966
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author Jia, Yuhang
Wang, Hui
Nie, Xin
Guo, Yujie
Gao, Lianru
Qin, Yong
author_facet Jia, Yuhang
Wang, Hui
Nie, Xin
Guo, Yujie
Gao, Lianru
Qin, Yong
contents Audio editing aims to manipulate audio content based on textual descriptions, supporting tasks such as adding, removing, or replacing audio events. Despite recent progress, the lack of high-quality benchmark datasets and comprehensive evaluation metrics remains a major challenge for both assessing audio editing quality and improving the task itself. In this work, we propose a novel approach for audio editing task by incorporating expert knowledge into both the evaluation and dataset construction processes: 1) First, we establish AuditScore, the first comprehensive dataset for subjective evaluation of audio editing, consisting of over 6,300 edited samples generated from 7 representative audio editing frameworks and 23 system configurations. Each sample is annotated by professional raters on three key aspects of audio editing quality: overall Quality, Relevance to editing intent, and Faithfulness to original features. 2) Based on this dataset, we systematically propose AuditEval, a family of automatic MOS-style evaluators tailored for audio editing, covering both SSL-based and LLM-based approaches. It addresses the lack of effective objective metrics and the prohibitive cost of subjective evaluation in this field. 3) We further leverage AuditEval to evaluate and filter a large amount of synthetically mixed editing pairs, mining a high-quality pseudo-parallel subset by selecting the most plausible samples. Comprehensive experiments validate that our expert-informed filtering strategy effectively yields higher-quality data, while also exposing the limitations of traditional objective metrics and the advantages of AuditEval. The dataset, codes and tools can be found at: https://github.com/NKU-HLT/AuditEval.
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spellingShingle Towards Automatic Evaluation and High-Quality Pseudo-Parallel Dataset Construction for Audio Editing: A Human-in-the-Loop Method
Jia, Yuhang
Wang, Hui
Nie, Xin
Guo, Yujie
Gao, Lianru
Qin, Yong
Sound
Audio editing aims to manipulate audio content based on textual descriptions, supporting tasks such as adding, removing, or replacing audio events. Despite recent progress, the lack of high-quality benchmark datasets and comprehensive evaluation metrics remains a major challenge for both assessing audio editing quality and improving the task itself. In this work, we propose a novel approach for audio editing task by incorporating expert knowledge into both the evaluation and dataset construction processes: 1) First, we establish AuditScore, the first comprehensive dataset for subjective evaluation of audio editing, consisting of over 6,300 edited samples generated from 7 representative audio editing frameworks and 23 system configurations. Each sample is annotated by professional raters on three key aspects of audio editing quality: overall Quality, Relevance to editing intent, and Faithfulness to original features. 2) Based on this dataset, we systematically propose AuditEval, a family of automatic MOS-style evaluators tailored for audio editing, covering both SSL-based and LLM-based approaches. It addresses the lack of effective objective metrics and the prohibitive cost of subjective evaluation in this field. 3) We further leverage AuditEval to evaluate and filter a large amount of synthetically mixed editing pairs, mining a high-quality pseudo-parallel subset by selecting the most plausible samples. Comprehensive experiments validate that our expert-informed filtering strategy effectively yields higher-quality data, while also exposing the limitations of traditional objective metrics and the advantages of AuditEval. The dataset, codes and tools can be found at: https://github.com/NKU-HLT/AuditEval.
title Towards Automatic Evaluation and High-Quality Pseudo-Parallel Dataset Construction for Audio Editing: A Human-in-the-Loop Method
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11966