Data Corpus for the IEEE-AASP Challenge on the Acoustic Characterization of Environments (ACE)
DOI10.5281/zenodo.6257551Zenodo6257551MaRDI QIDQ6703869FDOQ6703869
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
Patrick Naylor, James Eaton, Nikolay D. Gaubitch, Alastair H Moore
Publication date: 2 March 2015
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The aim of this challenge was to evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms for blind acoustic parameter estimation from speech and to promote the emerging area of research in this field. Several established parameters and metrics have been used to characterize the acoustics of a room. The most important are theDirect-To-Reverberant Ratio (DRR), theReverberation Time (T60)and the reflection coefficient. The acoustic characteristics of a room based on such parameters can be used to predict the quality and intelligibility of speech signals in that room. Recently, several important methods in speech enhancement and speech recognition have been developed that show an increase in performance compared to the predecessors but do require knowledge of one or more fundamental acoustical parameters such as theT60. Traditionally, these parameters have been estimated using carefully measuredAcoustic Impulse Responses (AIRs). However, in most applications it is not practical or even possible to measure the acoustic impulse response. Consequently, there is increasing research activity in the estimation of such parameters directly from speech and audio signals. Documentation and software Corpus instructions including software operating instructions Software to generate new datasets from the corpus materials (Matlab) T60and DRR measurements in fullband andISO-266preferred frequency bands Room dimensions and approximate positions of microphones and sources Anechoic speech Comprising Development (Dev): 4 male talkers, 2 utterances each, and Evaluation (Eval): 5 male and 5 female talkers, 5 utterances each, recorded using the anechoic chamber atTU Delftatfs=48 kHz in 16-bit format. Plain text (.txt) transcriptions of each .wav file are included. RIRs and noise by microphone configuration Each archive below contains the set offs=48 kHz 16-bit RIRs, ambient, fan and babble noise .wav files for each room and microphone position for that microphone configuration, recorded in 7 different rooms in theDept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. The corpus comprises the following components: Single-channel (based on cruciform channel 1) 417 MB 2-channel laptop 1.05 GB 3-channel mobile 1.59 GB 5-channel cruciform 2.84 GB 8-channel linear 4.24 GB 32-channel spherical 14.2 GB The corpus and the ACE Challenge are described in the followingjournal paper: J. Eaton; N. D. Gaubitch; A. H. Moore; P. A. Naylor, Estimation of room acoustic parameters: The ACE Challenge, inIEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 24, no.10, pp.1681-1693, Oct. 2016. Please cite this whenever you use any part of the corpus. BibTeX references are available here for thejournal paperandtechnical report.
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