hewliyang/nisqa-blizzard-challenge-mos

blizzard-challenge-mos

This dataset contains MOS (Naturalness) subjective metrics derived from listening tests done during the evaluation stages of the Blizzard Challenge from 2008 -> 2023. All data is sourced from https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/data.html.

The dataset is formatted for training NISQA models. In particular, at this time there are only 3 columns for each .csv file:

Field	Type	Description
filepath_deg	str	Relative file path to the .wav file
mos	float	Averaged MOS per file over an X number of listeners
track (should be called system)	str	Represents the group of generated speech submitted by a participant (e.g., A, B, ..., Z)
commercial_ok	Literal['yes', 'no', 'unknown']	Permission for commercial R&D (unknown means the permission file was not present)

Usage

Similarly, we cannot leverage datasets for data loading. Instead, make sure Git LFS is installed on your system:

sudo apt install git-lfs
git lfs install

Download the dataset using:

git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/hewliyang/blizzard-challenge-mos

Untar the wavfiles

find . -name '*.tar.gz' -exec tar -xzf '{}' \;

# can remove the tarballs to save disk space
rm *.tar.gz

Summary

Taken from Mittag. G, Moller. S, 2021

To filter for subtasks ie: EH1, EH2 notice that the filenames have been make extremely verbose by design.
You can filter easily by checking for substrings ie: "EH1" in x

Caveats**

1. 2014,2015,2016 data only contains system level (ie: submission grouped by participating team).
2. 2015 data was no longer available for download at the link above, hence has been omitted here.

Todos

• handle 2014 data (will not do, only system level MOS available)
• add metadata (license per system, languages, hub/spoke task labels)
• handle 2016 edge cases (listening tests were done on a concatenation of a few raw files + silences. these samples have to be reconstructed which has not been done yet. so we are missing ~500 wavs)
• citations for all Blizzard Challenges

References

@inproceedings{Mittag_2021, series={interspeech_2021},
   title={NISQA: A Deep CNN-Self-Attention Model for Multidimensional Speech Quality Prediction with Crowdsourced Datasets},
   url={http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-299},
   DOI={10.21437/interspeech.2021-299},
   booktitle={Interspeech 2021},
   publisher={ISCA},
   author={Mittag, Gabriel and Naderi, Babak and Chehadi, Assmaa and Möller, Sebastian},
   year={2021},
   month=aug, collection={interspeech_2021} }

@inproceedings{Mittag_2020, series={interspeech_2020},
   title={Deep Learning Based Assessment of Synthetic Speech Naturalness},
   url={http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2382},
   DOI={10.21437/interspeech.2020-2382},
   booktitle={Interspeech 2020},
   publisher={ISCA},
   author={Mittag, Gabriel and Möller, Sebastian},
   year={2020},
   month=oct, collection={interspeech_2020} }

@inproceedings{perrotin23_blizzard,
  title     = {The Blizzard Challenge 2023},
  author    = {Olivier Perrotin and Brooke Stephenson and Silvain Gerber and Gérard Bailly},
  year      = {2023},
  booktitle = {18th Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  pages     = {1--27},
  doi       = {10.21437/Blizzard.2023-1},
}

@inproceedings{7336888,
  author={Gupta, Rishabh and Banville, Hubert J. and Falk, Tiago H.},
  booktitle={2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)},
  title={PhySyQX: A database for physiological evaluation of synthesised speech quality-of-experience},
  year={2015},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-5},
  keywords={Speech;Databases;Electroencephalography;Electrodes;Acoustics;Brain models;Quality-of-Experience;Text-to-Speech;Electroencephalography;functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy;Open Access Database},
  doi={10.1109/WASPAA.2015.7336888}}

@inproceedings{king2008blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2008},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2008}
}

@inproceedings{king2009blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2009},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2009}
}

@inproceedings{king2010blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2010},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2010}
}

@inproceedings{king2011blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2011},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2011}
}

@inproceedings{king2012blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2012},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2012}
}

@inproceedings{king2013blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2013},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2013}
}

@inproceedings{king2016blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2016},
  author = {Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2016}
}

@inproceedings{prahallad2014blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2014},
  author = {K. Prahallad and A. Vadapalli and S. Kesiraju and H. Murthy and S. Lata and T. Nagarajan and M. Prasanna and H. Patil and A. Sao and S. King and K. Tokuda and A. W. Black},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{prahallad2015blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2015},
  author = {K. Prahallad and A. Vadapalli and S. Kesiraju and H. Murthy and S. Lata and T. Nagarajan and M. Prasanna and H. Patil and A. Sao and S. King and K. Tokuda and A. W. Black},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2015}
}

@inproceedings{wu2019blizzard,
  title = {The Blizzard Challenge 2019},
  author = {Z. Wu and Z. Xie and S. King},
  booktitle = {Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
  year = {2019}
}