The Berlin Dataset of Lombard and Masked Speech (BELMASK)
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Technische Universität Berlin
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The Berlin Dataset of Lombard and Masked Speech (BELMASK) is a phonetically controlled audiovisual dataset of speech produced in adverse speaking conditions. The dataset contains in total 128 min of audio and video recordings of 10 German native speakers (4 female, 6 male) with a mean age of 30.2 years (SD: 6.3 years), uttering matrix sentences in cued, uninstructed speech in four conditions: (i) with a Filtering Facepiece P2 (FFP2), (ii) without an FFP2 mask in silence, (iii) with an FFP2 mask while exposed to noise, iv) without an FFP2 mask while exposed to noise. Noise consisted of mixed-gender six-talker babble played over headphones to the speakers, triggering the Lombard effect. All conditions are readily available in face-and-voice and voice-only formats. The speech material is annotated, employing a multi-layer architecture, and was originally conceptualized to be used for the administration of a working memory task. The dataset is available for academic research in the area of speech communication, acoustics, psychology and related disciplines upon request, after signing an End User License Agreement (EULA).
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Requesters and users may only access the BELMASK after the End User License Agreement (EULA) has been signed and returned to the authors. By signing the EULA, requesters and users agree to the specific terms of use defined by the authors. The EULA must be signed by academic staff with a permanent position at a higher education institution. Requesters and users may not use the database for any non-academic purposes. Requesters and users may not distribute the database in any way.
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Publications, including research papers and presentations for conferences or other educational purposes that report the use of BELMASK will cite the following paper:
Moshona CC, Rudawski F, Fiebig A, Sarradj E. BELMASK—An Audiovisual Dataset of Adversely Produced Speech for Auditory Cognition Research. Data. 2024; 9(8):92. https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080092
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