Acoustic models of Brazilian Portuguese Speech based on Neural Transformers - Refinement dataset SPIRA

This dataset was collected over the internet and in hospital wards with the goal of detecting respiratory insufficiency (typically caused by COVID-19). This data collection is part of the SPIRA Project, whose goal is developing a system for recognizing respiratory insufficiency through speech analysis. The datasets presented here were used in the paper: Acoustic models of Brazilian Portuguese Speech based on Neural Transformers by Marcelo Gauy and Marcelo Finger.

The spira_trimmed_data file contains the original ~1 hour dataset collected over the internet (control) and in hospital wards (patients) by the SPIRA Project. This is as described in the paper: Deep learning against COVID-19: Respiratory insufficiency detection in Brazilian Portuguese Speech. We include it here for completeness.

The spira_control_full_mp3 file contains the complete ~18 hours control data collected over the internet by the SPIRA project. While not useful for respiratory insufficiency detection, the dataset may be used for identifying age and gender as we mention in our paper: Acoustic models of Brazilian Portuguese Speech based on Neural Transformers.