Subject: [codec] McGill university speech database

From: Michael Knappe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:55:21 -0700

Just received permission from Dr. Peter Kabal at McGill University to use their 1400 utterance, 24 different talker (12 male, 12 female) Harvard sentence speech database for our codec testing efforts in the IETF codec WG. Includes the original 48 kHz files. My preference is just to put the McGill link to the 539 MB CD ISO image file up on the codec wiki, if that sounds ok with everyone I will get final permission to post the link from Dr. Kabal and get them up on the wiki asap.

Next step is to work on getting rights to representative music content. A capella vocals (e.g. Tom’s Diner) , orchestral crescendo’s, castanets, solo violin, jazz trumpet/ensembles, rock/electronica etc would all be good to include for testing, please reply with any suggestions.

Thanks to Jean-Marc for the pointer to Dr. Kabal and the speech database!

Cheers,

Mike