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  1. A Comprehensive Objective Evaluation of Modern Text-to-Speech for Turkish Using Speech Quality Assessment Models

    Oct 5, 2026Yunus Emre Ozkose, Alperen Kahraman, Ali HaznedarogluTTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    Sestek, Ankara, Türkiye

  2. ProxyMOS: Label-Free Speech Quality Assessment by Multi-Teacher Distillation with Adaptive Routing

    Sep 30, 2026Maxim Trokunov, Kirill Borodin, Nikita Vasiliev +1Ensemble LearningTTS Evaluation

    Lab260, Yerevan, Armenia · BitmanagerAI, Dubai, UAE · MTUCI, Moscow, Russia

  3. How Reliable Are Predicted MOS for Reproducing Human System-Level Preferences in Speech Enhancement?

    Sep 30, 2026Nahomi Kusunoki, Tsubasa Ochiai, Naohiro Tawara +4Human Preference EvaluationSpeech Quality Assessment

    Waseda University, Japan · NTT, Inc., Japan

  4. Improving Predicted MOS Scores, Not Perceived Quality: Multi-Predictor Test-Time Optimization of Enhanced Speech

    Sep 30, 2026Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix, Nahomi Kusunoki +5Reward HackingTest-Time Optimization

    NTT, Inc., Japan · Waseda University, Japan

  5. Louder, Longer, Livelier: Acoustic Shortcuts and Underspecified Rationales in Speech LLM Judges

    Sep 29, 2026Mingyue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade +2LLM-as-a-JudgeSpeech Quality Assessment

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Netflix

  6. Perceptual Quality Loss or Loss of Perceptual Quality?

    Sep 28, 2026Danilo de Oliveira, Tal Peer, Maurício do V. M. da Costa +1Perceptual LossSpeech Quality Assessment

    Signal Processing, University of Hamburg, Germany

  7. SpeechCritic: Learning a Diagnostic Speech Judge from Limited Human Preferences

    Sep 28, 2026Mingyue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationHuman Preference Modeling

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Netflix

  8. XSQ-AST: An Explainable Audio Spectrogram Transformer Framework for Localising Synthetic Speech Artifacts

    Sep 21, 2026Ben Heritage, Luca Resti, Mónica Villanueva Aylagas +3Explainable Artificial IntelligenceSpeech Generation Evaluation

    AudioLab, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, University of York, United Kingdom · SEED – Electronic Arts (EA), Sweden +1

  9. ART-NAD: An Articulatory Inversion-based Neural Acoustic Distance for Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment

    Sep 21, 2026Bence Mark Halpern, Thomas Tienkamp, Defne Abur +1Speech Quality AssessmentSpeech Processing

    Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan · University of Cologne Cologne, Germany · University of Groningen Groningen, the Netherlands

  10. Per-Aetiology Contrastive Severity Embeddings with Phonological Pseudo-Labelling for Multilingual Dysarthric Speech

    Sep 18, 2026Bernard Muller, Antonio Armando Ortiz Barrañón, LaVonne RobertsSpeech Quality Assessment

    The Scott-Morgan Foundation, Torquay, United Kingdom · Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico · SMF Labs, Paris, France

  11. CAL-MOS: Bridging Layers with Adapters for Robust MOS Prediction Across Speech Foundation Models

    Sep 14, 2026Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira, Pedro Lustosa Rege Botelho, Fernanda Silva +5Speech Foundation ModelsSpeech Quality Assessment

    AKCIT, Brazil · Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil · Federal University of Technology (UTFPR), Brazil +1

  12. Is Semantics Enough for Speech Mean Opinion Score Prediction?

    Sep 3, 2026Tianyu Lan, Yufei Shi, Yang Ai +3Human Preference EvaluationNeural Audio Codecs

    National Engineering Research Center of Speech and Language Information Processing, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  13. Perceptually Better, Semantically Worse: Measuring Speech Enhancement Impact on LLM-Based Voice Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Randy Frans Fela, Pejman MowlaeeSpoken Language UnderstandingSpeech Quality Assessment

    GN Group, Ballerup, Denmark

  14. Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions

    Aug 10, 2026Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationHuman Preference Evaluation

    ServiceNow

  15. Domain-Specific Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Systems: A Multi-Metric Benchmarking Study

    Aug 3, 2026Ali Jafar, Amal Sarmad, Shifa Yousaf +1Speech Generation EvaluationTTS Evaluation

    FAST School of Computing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

  16. RW-Voice-EQ Bench: A Real World Benchmark for Evaluating Voice AI Systems

    Jul 16, 2026David Ayllon, Alice Baird, Jeffrey Brooks +11ASR EvaluationVoice Agent Evaluation

    Hume AI Research

  17. Auditing Protocol-Level Shortcuts in Large Audio Language Model Judges for Speech Evaluation

    Jul 15, 2026Joonyong Park, David M. Chan, Yuki Saito +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationLLM Auditing

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  18. SPEARBench: A Benchmark for Naturalness Evaluation in Streaming Speech-to-Speech Language Models

    Jul 6, 2026Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Hao Zhang +5Audio-Language Model EvaluationLanguage Model Generation Evaluation

    ∗Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · †Amazon Inc., Seattle, WA, USA

  19. Is Natural Always Appropriate? Investigating Naturalness and Appropriateness Across Different Domains for TTS Evaluation

    Jun 30, 2026Dominika Woszczyk, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Jura Miniota +2TTS SynthesisSpeech Generation Evaluation

    Iconic, United Kingdom · Technische Universität München, Germany · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden +1

  20. Attacking UTMOS: Probing the Robustness of a Speech Quality Assessment Model

    Jun 30, 2026Wen-Chin Huang, Tomoki TodaAdversarial AttacksSpeech Quality Assessment

    Nagoya University, Japan

  21. ParaPairAudioBench: Paralinguistic Pairwise Audio Benchmark for LALM-as-a-Judge

    Jun 23, 2026Jisu Jeon, Seungyeon Jwa, Joosung Lee +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationPairwise Comparison

    Hongik University, South Korea · Seoul National University, South Korea · NAVER Cloud, South Korea +1

  22. What Does a Pathological Speech Assessment Model Know about Acoustic Features? A Case Study on Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients

    Jun 23, 2026Tuan Nguyen, Corinne Fredouille, Alain Ghio +2Speech Quality AssessmentInterpretable ML

    LIA, AU · Avignon University, LIA, UPR 4128, Avignon, France · AU, LIA +5

  23. Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented Classification for Dysarthria Severity Assessment

    Jun 22, 2026Taeyoung Jeong, Insung Lee, Du-Seong Chang +1Retrieval-Augmented ClassificationSpeech Quality Assessment

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sogang University, South Korea

  24. An Evaluation Framework for Text-to-Speech Voice Reconstruction

    Jun 19, 2026Ariadna Sanchez, Christoph Minixhofer, Korin Richmond +3Speech Generation EvaluationTTS Evaluation

    The Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, UK

  25. Towards Dys-XAI: Influence-Based Explanations for Dysarthria Severity Assessment

    Jun 19, 2026Xiaoliang Wu, Qiyang Sun, Yupei Li +3Explainable Artificial IntelligenceSpeech Quality Assessment

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom · Imperial College London, United Kingdom · University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom +1

  26. PASQA: Pitch-Accent-Focused Speech Quality Assessment Model Trained on Synthetic Speech with Accent Errors

    Jun 18, 2026Masaya Kawamura, Yuma Shirahata, Kentaro Mitsui +1Speech Quality AssessmentSpeech Prosody

    LY Corporation, Japan

  27. Investigating Human-Model Discrepancies in Speech Quality Assessment via Acoustic and Prosodic Perturbations

    Jun 18, 2026Masato Takagi, Masaya Kawamura, Reo Shimizu +1Human Preference EvaluationSpeech Generation Evaluation

    Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan · LY Corporation, Japan

  28. PrefSQA: Pairwise Preference Prediction for Speech Quality Assessment and the Critical Role of High Quality Datasets

    Jun 17, 2026Junyi Fan, Donald S. WilliamsonPairwise Preference LearningPairwise Preference Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA

  29. Augmenting Dysarthric Speech Severity Assessment with MOS Supervision

    Jun 17, 2026Kaimeng Jia, Minzhu Tu, Zengrui Jin +2Speech Quality AssessmentSpeech Processing

    Tsinghua University · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  30. NVMOS: Non-Verbal Vocalization Quality Assessment in Speech

    Jun 14, 2026Jialong Mai, Jinxin Ji, Xiaofen Xing +2Audio-Language Model EvaluationSpeech Quality Assessment

    1South China University of Technology · 2Tongji University · 3Foshan University