Cadenza Challenge (CAD1): databases for the First Cadenza Challenge - Task1

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This is the training, validation and evaluation data for the First Cadenza Challenge - Task 1.

The Cadenza Challenges are improving music production and processing for people with a hearing loss. According to The World Health Organization, 430 million people worldwide have a disabling hearing loss. Studies show that not being able to understand lyrics is an important problem to tackle for those with hearing loss. Consequently, this task is about improving the intelligibility of lyrics when listening to pop/rock over headphones. But this needs to be done without losing too much audio quality - you can't improve intelligibility just by turning off the rest of the band! We will be using one metric for intelligibility and another metric for audio quality, and giving you different targets to explore the balance between these metrics.

Please see the Cadenza website for a full description of the data