Re: sound events database

[Mathieu Bernard <mathieu.bernard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi,

There is also the animal vocalization database of the Berliner museum of 
natural history.
See http://www.tierstimmenarchiv.de/

Best regards,

Mathieu Bernard
PhD Student,
ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

Ernesto Accolti a écrit :
> Many thanks to everyone! Now I have a lot of databases (almost all
> that you suggested) and an interesting paper that helps me with the
> compilation strategy (Shafiro and Gygi 2004). I will send a mail when
> I have an interesting advance on the compilation task.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ernesto.
>
> 2010/4/23 Dan Stowell <dan.stowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
> > Hi -
> >
> > You might be interested in the "Sound Events" database from CMU's Auditory
> > Lab.
> > http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~auditorylab/AuditoryLab/data-files.html
> >
> > The events are not exactly the type you describe, but they're cleanly
> > recorded and with plenty of details of the recording setup, so may be close
> > to what you're after.
> >
> > Best
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > Ernesto Accolti wrote:
> >     
> > > Dear List,
> > >
> > > Anyone knows where could I find a calibrated database of sound events?
> > >
> > > I mean events like car, trucks and motorcycle passby, birds, dogs ...
> > > alarms. It is better if they are far from the background noise and
> > > each event in a separated wavefile or very distant in time (not
> > > overlapping).
> > >
> > > The sounds that I am searching must not be in loosely compression
> > > formats and must have a calibration reference  (e.g.) in order to know
> > > the sound pressure level that represents the full scale of the file.
> > >
> > > I will appreciate any help.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Ernesto Accolti.
> > > PhD student
> > >
> > > Built Environment Control Laboratory
> > > Second University of Naples
> > > Aversa (Ce), Italy
> > >
> > > Laboratory of Acoustics and Electroacoustics
> > > National University of Rosario
> > > Rosario, Argentina
> > >       
> > --
> > Dan Stowell
> > Centre for Digital Music
> > School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
> > Queen Mary, University of London
> > Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
> > http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/department/staff/research/dans.htm
> > http://www.mcld.co.uk/
> >
> >