| # MUSAN: A Music, Speech, and Noise Corpus | |
| MUSAN is a corpus of music, speech, and noise recordings designed for training models for voice activity detection and music/speech discrimination. This is a comprehensive collection suitable for various audio processing tasks. | |
| ## Dataset Description | |
| - **Total Duration**: ~109 hours of audio | |
| - **Categories**: Music, Speech, and Noise | |
| - **Format**: WAV audio files | |
| - **License**: All files fall under Creative Commons licenses or USA Public Domain (no commercial use restrictions) | |
| ## Dataset Structure | |
| The dataset is organized into three main categories: | |
| ### 1. Music (~42 hours) | |
| - **Subcategories**: Classical, Pop/Rock, Jazz, and more | |
| - **Sources**: Free Music Archive, Jamendo, and others | |
| - **Files**: Contains instrumental and vocal music | |
| ### 2. Speech (~60 hours) | |
| - **Sources**: LibriVox (public domain audiobooks), US Government recordings | |
| - **Languages**: Primarily English | |
| - **Content**: Various speakers reading books and government proceedings | |
| ### 3. Noise (~7 hours) | |
| - **Types**: Environmental sounds, technical noises, etc. | |
| - **Source**: Free Sound and sound effect collections | |
| - **Use Cases**: Background noise for robust model training | |
| ## Citation | |
| If you use this dataset, please cite the original paper: | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{musan2015, | |
| author = {David Snyder and Guoguo Chen and Daniel Povey}, | |
| title = {{MUSAN}: {A} {M}usic, {S}peech, and {N}oise {C}orpus}, | |
| year = {2015}, | |
| eprint = {1510.08484}, | |
| note = {arXiv:1510.08484v1} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## Acknowledgments | |
| This dataset was created by David Snyder, Guoguo Chen, and Daniel Povey with support from: | |
| - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant No. 1232825) | |
| - Spoken Communications | |
| ## License Information | |
| All content in this corpus is available under Creative Commons licenses or is in the USA Public Domain. Each subdirectory contains: | |
| - `LICENSE` file with specific licensing details for files in that directory | |
| - `ANNOTATIONS` file with metadata about the recordings | |
| For more information about Creative Commons licenses, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ | |
| ## Contact | |
| Original dataset curator: David Snyder (david.ryan.snyder@gmail.com) | |
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| *This Hugging Face version is provided by FluidInference to make the dataset more accessible for the research community.* |