3 papers
eess.AS2025
From the perspective of perceptual speech quality: The robustness of frequency bands to noise
Junyi Fan, Donald S. Williamson
Speech quality is one of the main foci of speech-related research, where it is frequently studied with speech intelligibility, another essential measurement. Band-level perceptual…
eess.AS2025
JSQA: Speech Quality Assessment with Perceptually-Inspired Contrastive Pretraining Based on JND Audio Pairs
Junyi Fan, Donald Williamson
Speech quality assessment (SQA) is often used to learn a mapping from a high-dimensional input space to a scalar that represents the mean opinion score (MOS) of the perceptual spee…
cs.LG2024
A contrastive-learning approach for auditory attention detection
Seyed Ali Alavi Bajestan, Mark Pitt, Donald S. Williamson
Carrying conversations in multi-sound environments is one of the more challenging tasks, since the sounds overlap across time and frequency making it difficult to understand a sing…