PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) Wrapper for Python Users

This code is designed for numpy array specially.

C compiler
numpy
cython

# PyPi Repository
$ pip install pesq
# The Latest Version
$ pip install https://github.com/ludlows/python-pesq/archive/master.zip

Please note that the sampling rate (frequency) should be 16000 or 8000 (Hz).

And using 8000Hz is supported for narrowband only.

The code supports error-handling behaviors now.

def pesq(fs, ref, deg, mode='wb', on_error=PesqError.RAISE_EXCEPTION):
    """
    Args:
        ref: numpy 1D array, reference audio signal 
        deg: numpy 1D array, degraded audio signal
        fs:  integer, sampling rate
        mode: 'wb' (wide-band) or 'nb' (narrow-band)
        on_error: error-handling behavior, it could be PesqError.RETURN_VALUES or PesqError.RAISE_EXCEPTION by default
    Returns:
        pesq_score: float, P.862.2 Prediction (MOS-LQO)
    """

Once you select PesqError.RETURN_VALUES, the pesq function will return -1 when an error occurs.

Once you select PesqError.RAISE_EXCEPTION, the pesq function will raise an exception when an error occurs.

It supports the following errors now: InvalidSampleRateError, OutOfMemoryError,BufferTooShortError,NoUtterancesError,PesqError(other unknown errors).

from scipy.io import wavfile
from pesq import pesq
rate, ref = wavfile.read("./audio/speech.wav")
rate, deg = wavfile.read("./audio/speech_bab_0dB.wav")
print(pesq(rate, ref, deg, 'wb'))
print(pesq(rate, ref, deg, 'nb'))

def pesq_batch(fs, ref, deg, mode='wb', n_processor=None, on_error=PesqError.RAISE_EXCEPTION):
    """
   Running `pesq` using multiple processors
    Args:
        on_error:
        ref: numpy 1D (n_sample,) or 2D array (n_file, n_sample), reference audio signal
        deg: numpy 1D (n_sample,) or 2D array (n_file, n_sample), degraded audio signal
        fs:  integer, sampling rate
        mode: 'wb' (wide-band) or 'nb' (narrow-band)
        n_processor: cpu_count() (default) or number of processors (chosen by the user) or 0 (without multiprocessing)
        on_error: PesqError.RAISE_EXCEPTION (default) or PesqError.RETURN_VALUES
    Returns:
        pesq_score: list of pesq scores, P.862.2 Prediction (MOS-LQO)
    """

this function uses multiprocessing features to boost time efficiency.

When the ref is an 1-D numpy array and deg is a 2-D numpy array, the result of pesq_batch is identical to the value of [pesq(fs, ref, deg[i,:],**kwargs) for i in range(deg.shape[0])].

When the ref is a 2-D numpy array and deg is a 2-D numpy array, the result of pesq_batch is identical to the value of [pesq(fs, ref[i,:], deg[i,:],**kwargs) for i in range(deg.shape[0])].

The correctness is verified by running samples in audio folder.

PESQ computed by this code in wideband mode is 1.0832337141036987

PESQ computed by this code in narrowband mode is 1.6072081327438354

Sampling rate (fs|rate) - No default. Must select either 8000Hz or 16000Hz.

Note there is narrowband (nb) mode only when sampling rate is 8000Hz.

The original C source code is modified.

Please click here to see these repositories, whose owners include Facebook Research, SpeechBrain, NVIDIA .etc.

   @software{miao_wang_2022_6549559,
   author       = {Miao Wang, Christoph Boeddeker, Rafael G. Dantas and ananda seelan},
   title        = {PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) Wrapper for Python Users},
   month        = may,
   year         = 2022,
   publisher    = {Zenodo},
   version      = {v0.0.4},
   doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6549559},
   url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6549559}}

This work was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

This work was also funded by the Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.