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Building and Evaluation of a Real Room Impulse Response Dataset

arXiv 1811.06795 ↗First posted 16 Nov 2018eess.AScited by 43

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This paper presents BUT ReverbDB - a dataset of real room impulse responses (RIR), background noises and re-transmitted speech data. The retransmitted data includes LibriSpeech test-clean, 2000 HUB5 English evaluation and part of 2010 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation datasets. We provide a detailed description of RIR collection (hardware, software, post-processing) that can serve as a "cook-book" for similar efforts. We also validate BUT ReverbDB in two sets of automatic speech recognition (ASR) experiments and draw conclusions for augmenting ASR training data with real and artificially generated RIRs. We show that a limited number of real RIRs, carefully selected to match the target environment, provide results comparable to a large number of artificially generated RIRs, and that both sets can be combined to achieve the best ASR results. The dataset is distributed for free under a non-restrictive license and it currently contains data from 8 rooms, which is growing. The distribution package also contains a Kaldi-based recipe for augmenting publicly available AMI close-talk meeting data and test the results on an AMI single distant microphone set, allowing it to reproduce our experiments.

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  2. 2021A Survey of Sound Source Localization with Deep Learning Methodscited by 46
  3. 2022BinauralGrad: A Two-Stage Conditional Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Binaural Audio Synthesiscited by 44
  4. 2021FAST-RIR: Fast neural diffuse room impulse response generatorcited by 35
  5. 2021Learning Audio-Visual Dereverberationcited by 26
  6. 2022MESH2IR: Neural Acoustic Impulse Response Generator for Complex 3D Scenescited by 23
  7. 2022Deep Impulse Responses: Estimating and Parameterizing Filters with Deep Networkscited by 20
  8. 2021Attack on practical speaker verification system using universal adversarial perturbationscited by 18
  9. 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberationcited by 15
  10. 2023Device-Robust Acoustic Scene Classification via Impulse Response Augmentationcited by 11
  11. 2024Unsupervised Blind Joint Dereverberation and Room Acoustics Estimation with Diffusion Modelscited by 11
  12. 2022Towards Improved Room Impulse Response Estimation for Speech Recognitioncited by 9
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  2. 2025BinauralFlow: A Causal and Streamable Approach for High-Quality Binaural Speech Synthesis with Flow Matching Modelscited by 5
  3. 2026Gencho: Room Impulse Response Generation from Reverberant Speech and Text via Diffusion Transformerscited by 4
  4. 2023Blind Acoustic Room Parameter Estimation Using Phase Featurescited by 3
  5. 2024Gaussian Flow Bridges for Audio Domain Transfer with Unpaired Datacited by 3
  6. 2025MB-RIRs: a Synthetic Room Impulse Response Dataset with Frequency-Dependent Absorption Coefficientscited by 3
  7. 2022Multi-style Training for South African Call Centre Audiocited by 2
  8. 2022Synthetic Wave-Geometric Impulse Responses for Improved Speech Dereverberationcited by 2
  9. 2023Convoifilter: A case study of doing cocktail party speech recognitioncited by 2
  10. 2025Treble10: A high-quality dataset for far-field speech recognition, dereverberation, and enhancementcited by 2
  11. 2022Efficient acoustic feature transformation in mismatched environments using a Guided-GANcited by 1
  12. 2024Early Joint Learning of Emotion Information Makes MultiModal Model Understand You Bettercited by 1
  13. 2025LibriConvo: Simulating Conversations from Read Literature for ASR and Diarizationcited by 1
  14. 2025EchoMark: Perceptual Acoustic Environment Transfer with Watermark-Embedded Room Impulse Responsecited by 1
  15. 2025Rethinking Leveraging Pre-Trained Multi-Layer Representations for Speaker Verificationcited by 1
  16. 2026LipsAM: Lipschitz-Continuous Amplitude Modifier for Audio Signal Processing and its Application to Plug-and-Play Dereverberationcited by 1
  17. 2026How to Leverage Synthetic Speech for LLM-Based ASR Systems?cited by 1
  18. 2022Computing Optimal Location of Microphone for Improved Speech Recognitioncited by 0
  19. 2022Collar-aware Training for Streaming Speaker Change Detection in Broadcast Speechcited by 0
  20. 2022Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-device Speech Processingcited by 0
  21. 2023AraSpot: Arabic Spoken Command Spottingcited by 0
  22. 2025SAGE-LD: Towards Scalable and Generalizable End-to-End Language Diarization via Simulated Data Augmentationcited by 0
  23. 2025ADNAC: Audio Denoiser using Neural Audio Codeccited by 0
  24. 2026VieSpeaker: A Large-Scale Vietnamese Speaker Recognition Dataset Beyond Visual Dependencycited by 0
  25. 2026Quantifying the Uncertainty of Blindly Estimated Room Embeddings Using a Dispersion-Calibrated Scorecited by 0
  26. 2026When Synthetic Speech Is All You Have: Better Call GRPOcited by 0
  27. 2026MoLGE: Mixture of Language Group Experts for Efficient Scaling of Massively Multilingual Speech Recognitioncited by 0
  28. 2026MECT: Mixture of Experts with CNN-Transformer Network for Speaker verificationcited by 0
  29. 2026SE-MSB: End-to-End Unpaired Speech Enhancement using Mamba Schr"odinger Bridgescited by 0
  30. 2026Estimation of Room Impulse Responses from Handclapscited by 0
  31. 2026FFASR: Benchmarking Far-Field Automatic Speech Recognition using High-Fidelity Simulated RIRscited by 0