WSJ0 Hipster Ambient Mixtures noise dataset

scenes

General information

Label Value Description
Name WSJ0 Hipster Ambient Mixtures noise dataset Full dataset name
ID scenes/whisper Datalist id for external indexing
Abbreviation WHAM Official dataset abbreviation, e.g. one used in the original paper
Provider Whisper/MERL
Year 2019 Dataset release year
Modalities Audio Data modalities included in the dataset
Collection name WHAM Common name for all related datasets, used to group datasets coming from same source
Research domain Ambient noise Unlabelled Related domains, e.g., Scenes, Mobile devices, Audio-visual, Open set, Ambient noise, Unlabelled, Multiple sensors, SED, SELD, Tagging, FL, Strong annotation, Weak annotation, Unlabelled, Multi-annotator
License Creative commons, CC BY-NC 4.0
Download Download (17.6GB)
Companion site Site Link to the companion site for the dataset
Citation [Wichern2019] WHAM!: Extending Speech Separation to Noisy Environments

Audio

Label Value Description

Data

Data type Audio Possible values: Audio | Features
File format
File format type Constant Possible values: Constant | Variable
File format wav Possible value: wav | aiff | flac | mp3 | aac | ogg
Lossy compression No is audio compressed in a lossy manner
Bit rate 32 Bit depth of audio, possible values: 8 | 16 | 24 | 32
Sampling rate (kHz) 16 kHz Sampling rate in kHz, possible values: 8 | 16 | 22.05 | 32 | 44.1 | 48
Channels
Setup Binaural Possible values: Mono | Stereo | Binaural | Ambisonic | Array | Multi-Channel | Variable
Number of channels 2
Material
Source Original Possible values: Original | Youtube | Freesound | Online | Crowdsourced | [Dataset name]

Content

Content type Freefield Possible values: Freefield | Synthetic | Isolated
Scene Constant Is the scene class constant for single recording, possible values: Constant | Variable

Recording

Setup Uncontrolled Possible values: Near-field | Far-field | Mixed | Uncontrolled | Unknown
Setup count 1 Amount of different recording setups (microphone and recording device) used
Spot type Fixed Possible values: Fixed | Moving | Unknown

Files

Count 28000 files Total number of files
Total duration (minutes) 4900.8 min Total duration of the dataset in minutes
File length Variable Characterization of the file lengths, possible values: Constant | Quasi-constant | Variable
File length (seconds) 3.5-47.7 sec Approximate length of files

Meta

Label Value Description
Types Scene List of meta data types provided for the data, possible values: Event, Tag, Scene, Caption, Geolocation, Spatial location, Annotator, Timestamp, Presence, Proximity, etc.

Scene

Annotation
Type None Possible values: Strong | Weak | None
Labelled amount (%) 0 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which is labelled
Labeling
Hierarchical No
Instance
Count 28000 Count of all scene instances in the dataset

Cross-validation setup

Label Value Description
Provided Yes
Folds 1
Sets Train Val Test Set types provided in the split, possible values: Train | Test | Val | Dev | Eval

Info

Label Value Description
Comments Originally for speech separation