Efficient Speech Quality Assessment Using Self-Supervised Framewise Embeddings

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Automatic speech quality assessment is essential for audio researchers, developers, speech and language pathologists, and system quality engineers. The current state-of-the-art systems are based on framewise speech features (hand-engineered or learnable) combined with time dependency modeling. This paper proposes an efficient system with results comparable to the best performing model in the ConferencingSpeech 2022 challenge. Our proposed system is characterized by a smaller number of parameters (40-60x), fewer FLOPS (100x), lower memory consumption (10-15x), and lower latency (30x). Speech quality practitioners can therefore iterate much faster, deploy the system on resource-limited hardware, and, overall, the proposed system contributes to sustainable machine learning. The paper also concludes that framewise embeddings outperform utterance-level embeddings and that multi-task training with acoustic conditions modeling does not degrade speech quality prediction while providing better interpretation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Number of pages5
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2023
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-6327-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023 - Rhodes Island, Greece
Duration: 4 Jun 202310 Jun 2023

Conference

Conference48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023
LandGreece
ByRhodes Island
Periode04/06/202310/06/2023
SponsorIEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society
SeriesICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2023-June
ISSN1520-6149

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    Research areas

  • audio embeddings, deep neural networks, self-supervised learning, speech quality assessment, transformers

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