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

<p><strong>Purpose: </strong></p> <p>This corpus includes reverberated, noisy speech signals spoken by native French talkers in a lounge and recorded by an 8-microphone device at various angles and distances and in various noise conditions.</p> <p>Room impulse responses and noise-only signals recorded in various real rooms and homes and baseline speaker localization and enhancement software are also provided.</p> <p>This corpus stands apart from other corpora in the field by the number of rooms and homes considered and by the fact that it is publicly available at no cost.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Other materials:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Article: N. Bertin, E. Camberlein, E. Vincent, R. Lebarbenchon, S. Peillon, E. Lamand&eacute;, S. Sivasankaran, F. Bimbot, I. Illina, A. Tom, S. Fleury and E. Jamet: <a href="https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01343060"><strong>A French corpus for distant-microphone speech processing in real homes</strong></a>, Interspeech2016, Sep 2016, San Francisco, United States, 2016.</li> <li>Related software to reproduce article&#39;s results: <ul> <li><a href="https://gitlab.inria.fr/bass-db/mbss_locate">Multi-Channel BSS Locate (v1.3)</a></li> <li><a href="https://gitlab.inria.fr/bass-db/fasst">FASST (v2.2.1)</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Documentation (in french):</strong></p> <p>The corpus documentation is both available into the archive and hereafter by clicking on voiceHome_corpus_french_documentation_v1.2.pdf .</p> <p><strong>Terms of use</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Speaker records diffusion consent</strong></p> <p>All participants have given an informed and signed consent about public diffusion of recorded sentences.</p> <p><strong>New corpus version available : voiceHome-2 corpus</strong></p> <p>A new version of the corpus is available : <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1252143"><strong>voiceHome-2 corpus web page</strong></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>