Quality Assessment of Noisy and Enhanced Speech with Limited Data: UWB-NTIS System for Voicemos 2024
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We present a system for non-intrusive prediction of speech quality in noisy and enhanced speech, developed for Track 3 of the Voice-MOS 2024 Challenge. The task required estimating the ITU-T P.835 metrics SIG, BAK, and OVRL without reference signals and with only 100 subjectively labeled utterances for training. Our approach uses wav2vec 2.0 with a two-stage transfer learning strategy: initial fine-tuning on automatically labeled noisy data, followed by adaptation to the challenge data. The system achieved the best performance on BAK prediction (LCC = 0.867) and a very close second place in OVRL (LCC = 0.711) in the official evaluation. Post-challenge experiments show that adding artificially degraded data to the first fine-tuning stage substantially improves SIG prediction, raising correlation with ground truth scores from 0.207 to 0.516. These results demonstrate that transfer learning with targeted data generation is effective for predicting P.835 scores under severe data constraints.
Authors: Marie Kunešová, Aleš Pražák, Jan Lehečka
Institution: University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Language: English
Topic: Speech and Audio Processing
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415314597
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