This distribution contains the QUT-NOISE database and the code required to create the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database from the QUT-NOISE database and a locally installed copy of the TIMIT database. It also contains code to create the QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol on top of an existing speaker recognition evaluation database (such as NIST evaluations).
Further information on the QUT-NOISE and QUT-NOISE-TIMIT databases is available in our paper:
D. Dean, S. Sridharan, R. Vogt, M. Mason (2010) "The QUT-NOISE-TIMIT corpus for the evaluation of voice activity detection algorithms", in Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Makuhari Messe International Convention Complex, Makuhari, Japan, available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38144/.
This paper is also available in the file docs/Dean2010, The QUT-NOISE-TIMIT corpus for the evaluation of voice activity detection algorithm.pdf distributed with this database.
Further information on the QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol is available in our paper:
D. Dean, A. Kanagasundaram, H. Ghaemmaghami, M. Hafizur, S. Sridharan (2015) "The QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol for the evaluation of noisy speaker recognition". In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, September, Dresden, Germany, available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/85240/.
This paper is also available in the file docs/Dean2015, The QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol for the evaluation of noisy speaker recognition.pdf distributed with this database.
The QUT-NOISE data is licensed CC-BY-SA, and the code required to
create the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database and QUT-NOISE-SRE protocols is
licensed under a BSD-style license. Please consult the approriate
LICENSE.text files (in the code and QUT-NOISE directories) for
more information.
To attribute this database, please include the following citation:
D. Dean, S. Sridharan, R. Vogt, M. Mason (2010) "The QUT-NOISE-TIMIT corpus for the evaluation of voice activity detection algorithms", in Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Makuhari Messe International Convention Complex, Makuhari, Japan, available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38144/.
If your work is based upon the QUT-NOISE-SRE, please also include this citation:
D. Dean, A. Kanagasundaram, H. Ghaemmaghami, M. Hafizur, S. Sridharan (2015) "The QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol for the evaluation of noisy speaker recognition". In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, September, Dresden, Germany, available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/85240/.
Download the following QUT-NOISE*.zip files
qutnoise.zip(26.7 MB)qutnoisecafe.zip(1.6 GB)qutnoisecar.zip(1.7 GB)qutnoisehome.zip(1.4 GB)qutnoisereverb.zip(1.4 GB)qutnoisestreet.zip(1.6 GB)
Please unzip all qutnoise*.zip files into the same directory, and you should have the following directory structure:
QUT-NOISE
+--QUT-NOISE (.wav files collected for QUT-NOISE)
| +--labels (time labels)
| +--impulses (calculated room impulse responses)
+--QUT-NOISE-TIMIT (will contain the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database after installation)
+--code (code used to create QUT-NOISE-TIMIT)
+--docs (this file and the publications)
At this point, you have the QUT-NOISE database. If you wish to create the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database, or create a database based upon the QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol please continue to read the following sections.
In order to construct the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database from the QUT-NOISE data supplied here you will need to obtain a copy of the TIMIT database from the Linguistic Data Consortium. If you just want to use the QUT-NOISE database, or you wish to combine it with different speech data, TIMIT is not required.
Once you have obtained TIMIT, download and install a copy of
VOICEBOX: Speech Processing Toolbox for MATLAB and install it in
your MATLABPATH.
Run matlab in the QUT-NOISE/code directory, and run the function
createQUTNOISETIMIT('/location/of/timit-cd/timit'). This will create
the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database in the QUT-NOISE/QUT-NOISE-TIMIT directory.
If you wish to verify that the QUT-NOISE-TIMIT database matches that
evaluated in our original paper, please check that the md5sums (use
md5sum on unix-based OSes) match those in the
QUT-NOISE-TIMIT/md5sum.txt file.
The code related to the QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol can be used in two ways:
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To create a collection of noisy audio files across the scenarios in the QUT-NOISE database at different noise levels, or,
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To recreate a list of file names based on the QUT-NOISE-SRE protocl produced by another researcher, having already done (1). This allows existing research to be reproduced without having to send large volumes of audio around.
If you are interested in creating your own noisy database from an
existing SRE database (1 above), please look at the example script
exampleQUTNOISESRE.sh in the QUT-NOISE/code directory. You will need
to make some modifications, but it should give you the right idea.
If you are interested in creating our QUT-NOISE-NIST2008 database
published at Interspeech 2015, you can find the list of created noisy
files in the QUT-NOISE-NIST2008.train.short2.list and
QUT-NOISE-NIST2008.test.short3.list files in the QUT-NOISE/code
directory.
These files can be recreated as follows (provided you have access to the NIST2008 SRE data):
Run matlab in the QUT-NOISE/code directory, and run the following
functions:
createQUTNOISESREfiles('NIST2008.train.short2.list', ...
'QUT-NOISE-NIST2008.train.short2.list', ...
'<location/of/NIST2008/SRE>', ...
'../QUT-NOISE-NIST2008')
createQUTNOISESREfiles('NIST2008.test.short3.list', ...
'QUT-NOISE-NIST2008.test.short3.list', ...
'<location/of/NIST/2008/SRE>', ...
'../QUT-NOISE-NIST2008')
This may take some time to execute, so if you have access to a
computing cluster, it may be worth dividing the QUT-NOISE-NIST2008.*
files into smaller chunks and running in parallel. Just make sure that
testing or training noisy files are associated with testing or
training clean files (The NIST2008.* files) - but you don't need to
split the clean file lists.