arXiv:2606. 19951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mean opinion score (MOS) prediction models are widely used as proxy metrics in text-to-speech (TTS) research, yet their ability to capture quality differences beyond acoustic fidelity remains unclear.
arXiv:2606. 20137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing mean opinion score (MOS) prediction models typically predict utterance-level naturalness MOS and can be insensitive to localized pitch-accent errors.
arXiv:2606. 10233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While speech quality is typically assessed on complete utterances, streaming and generative systems require incremental estimation from partial audio.
arXiv:2608. 09930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Text-to-Speech (TTS) evaluation methods (Mean Opinion Score (MOS) predictors and Audio Large Language Models (Audio-LLM) judges) are expected to reflect human perception, yet it is unclear how well they capture the distinct aspects of speech that listeners actually perceive.
arXiv:2605.28227v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech translation models are increasingly capable of preserving speech-specific information (e.g., speaker gender, prosody, and emphasis), yet eva...
ConformalMOS is a framework that enhances Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction for synthetic speech by adding conformal prediction to generate statistically valid prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage under exchangeability, while also providing point estimates. The method models MOS labels in an ordinal-aware way by converting one-hot targets into Gaussian-smoothed distributions, which preserves score ordering and improves uncertainty calibration, especially when softmax confidence is overconfident on out-of-distribution speech. On BVCC datasets, ConformalMOS achieves competitive accuracy (MSE = 0.08) and empirically validated coverage, thereby improving reliability for real-world TTS and VC deployment.
arXiv:2609.24770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Localising artifacts in synthetic speech remains challenging, as most evaluation methods yield only global quality scores. This paper presents XSQ-AS...
arXiv:2511. 11686v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech enhancement (SE) requires high-fidelity reconstruction of clean speech that preserves linguistic and paralinguistic cues while maintaining high perceptual quality.
The paper introduces Prosodic Adjustment with Conversational Context (PACC), a deep‑learning method that converts read speech into natural conversational speech. PACC analyzes and modifies prosodic features—intonation, stress, and rhythm—using HiFi‑GAN for synthesis, aiming to preserve naturalness and intelligibility while keeping computational load low for real‑time use. Experiments show significant improvements in speech conversion, higher model accuracy, and better Mean Opinion Score (MOS) results, establishing new benchmarks for the task.
The paper introduces Corrective Forcing (CoF), a post‑training method that aligns diffusion and flow generative models for speech enhancement by training them on self‑generated rollout states. CoF corrects predictions toward ground truth under dynamic sampling schedules and regularizes local evolution with counterfactual transitions, applying a unified objective across both model types. Experiments on SB‑VE and OT‑CFM show improved perceptual quality, reconstruction fidelity, and robustness to varying sampling steps.
arXiv:2610.14776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are conventionally optimized for intelligibility and speaker similarity. However, neither objective captures the prosodi...
arXiv:2609.14956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Quality Assessment (SQA) is essential for modern speech technologies, and recent non-intrusive SQA predictors increasingly rely on Speech Foun...