AVA-Speech: A Densely Labeled Dataset of Speech Activity in Movies

2 Aug 2018  ·  Sourish Chaudhuri, Joseph Roth, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Andrew Gallagher, Liat Kaver, Radhika Marvin, Caroline Pantofaru, Nathan Reale, Loretta Guarino Reid, Kevin Wilson, Zhonghua Xi ·

Speech activity detection (or endpointing) is an important processing step for applications such as speech recognition, language identification and speaker diarization. Both audio- and vision-based approaches have been used for this task in various settings, often tailored toward end applications. However, much of the prior work reports results in synthetic settings, on task-specific datasets, or on datasets that are not openly available. This makes it difficult to compare approaches and understand their strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we describe a new dataset which we will release publicly containing densely labeled speech activity in YouTube videos, with the goal of creating a shared, available dataset for this task. The labels in the dataset annotate three different speech activity conditions: clean speech, speech co-occurring with music, and speech co-occurring with noise, which enable analysis of model performance in more challenging conditions based on the presence of overlapping noise. We report benchmark performance numbers on AVA-Speech using off-the-shelf, state-of-the-art audio and vision models that serve as a baseline to facilitate future research.

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Sound Audio and Speech Processing

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AVA-Speech

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AudioSet AVA