VoiceHome-2 corpus : A corpus dedicated to distant-microphone speech processing in domestic environments

Purpose:

This corpus includes reverberated, noisy speech signals spoken by 12 native French talkers in 4 houses (3 rooms per house) and recorded by an 8-microphone device at various angles and distances and in various noise conditions.

This corpus stands apart from other corpora in the field by the number of rooms and homes considered by the diversity of acoustic conditions recorded and by the facts that it is publicly available at no cost.

Other materials:

• Article : N. Bertin, E. Camberlein, R. Lebarbenchon, E. Vincent, S. Sivasankaran, I. Illina and F. Bimbot: VoiceHome-2, an extended corpus for multichannel speech processing in real homes, Speech Communication, Elsevier : North-Holland, 2019, 106, pp.68-78. ⟨10.1016/j.specom.2018.11.002⟩.
• Code baseline to reproduce article's results:
  • Localization and speech enhancement
  • Acoustic models and recognition scripts for automatic speech recognition
• Related software to execute the baseline:
  • MBSS Locate (v2.0)
  • FASST

Documentation:

The corpus documentation is both available into the archive and hereafter by clicking on voiceHome-2_corpus_v1.0_documentation.pdf .

Terms of use

You may exploit the corpus for a non-commercial scientific purpose provided you mention it in any written work or software you derive from its use. Within a published article, paper or report, the corpus must appear in the bibliographical references.

Speaker records diffusion consent

All participants have given an informed and signed consent about public diffusion of recorded sentences.

Contact:

nancy [dot] bertin [at] irisa [dot] fr