Subject: Re: sound events database From: Dan Stowell <dan.stowell@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:27:39 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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/