The following dataset consists of utterances, recorded using 24 volunteers raised in the Province of Manitoba, Canada. To provide a repeatable set of test words that would cover all of the phonemes, the Edinburg Machine Readable Phonetic Alphabet (MRPA) [KiGr08], consisting of 44 words is used. Each recording consists of one word uttered by the volunteer and recorded in one continuous session.
This task evaluates performance of the sound event detection systems in multisource conditions similar to our everyday life, where the sound sources are rarely heard in isolation. Contrary to task 2, there is no control over the number of overlapping sound events at each time, not in the training nor in the testing audio data.
Several established parameters and metrics have been used to characterize the acoustics of a room. The most important are the Direct-To-Reverberant Ratio (DRR), the Reverberation Time (T60) and the reflection coefficient. The acoustic characteristics of a room based on such parameters can be used to predict the quality and intelligibility of speech signals in that room.
