ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement Challenge: ICASSP 2023

The ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of improving the speech signal quality in communication systems. The speech signal quality can be measured with SIG in ITU-T P.835 and is still a top issue in audio communication and conferencing systems. For example, in the ICASSP 2022 Deep Noise Suppression challenge, the improvement in the background (BAK) and overall (OVRL) quality is impressive, but the improvement in the speech signal (SIG) is statistically zero. To improve SIG the following speech impairment areas must be addressed: coloration, discontinuity, loudness, and reverberation. We provide a dataset and test set for this challenge, and the winners will be determined using an extended crowd sourced implementation of ITU-T P.804.

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