Efficient Speech Quality Assessment Using Self-supervised Framewise Embeddings
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.
WOS:001549214003040
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
University of Copenhagen
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Logitech Europe
2023-01-01
New York
978-1-7281-6327-7
International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP
1520-6149
REVIEWED
EPFL
| Event name | Event acronym | Event place | Event date |
ICASSP 2023 | Rhodes Island (Greece) | 2023-06-04 - 2023-06-10 | |