TAU Sound Events and Speech Privacy Preservation

The TAU Sound Events and Speech Privacy Preservation Dataset is a collection of audio data used in the work "Adversarial Representation Learning for Robust Privacy Preservation in Audio" by S. Gharib, M. Tran, D. Luong, K. Drossos, and T. Virtanen. The dataset is created by merging subsets of the Freesound 50k Dataset (FSD50K) and the LibriSpeech corpus. Both FSD50K and LibriSpeech are licensed under the Creative Commons license.

The dataset contains of ~5000 one-second sound event samples with or without speech content provided in WAV and NumPy array format (approximately half of the samples contains speech). The creation of the dataset ensures an equal number of samples for male and female speakers across each sound event class. The sound event classes included in this dataset are:

dog barking

glass breaking

gun shot

cough

slam

applause

dished pot pan

toilet flush

cat meowing

doorbell

crying

drill

Please check the README for better understanding of the dataset.