ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets

ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets was developed for the Automatic Speech recognition In Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) Challenge sponsored by IARPA (the Intelligent Advanced Research Projects Activity). It contains approximately 226 hours of English speech with transcripts and scoring files. The ASpIRE challenge asked solvers to develop innovative speech recognition systems that could be trained on conversational telephone speech, and yet work well on far-field microphone data from noisy, reverberant rooms. Participants had the opportunity to evaluate their techniques on a common set of challenging data that included significant room noise and reverberation.