ODAQ MUSHRA Listening Test for Audio Quality
Score the basic audio quality of processed music excerpts against a reference on the 0 to 100 MUSHRA scale, with a hidden reference and two low-pass anchors.
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potato start config.yamlAbout this dataset
ODAQ is an open dataset of audio quality scores released by Fraunhofer IIS and Netflix. The dataset holds 240 stereo audio samples, 44.1 or 48 kHz, processed by six method classes at several quality levels. Five classes imitate audio coding artifacts (low-pass, tonality mismatch, unmasked noise, spectral holes, and pre-echoes), and the sixth is dialogue enhancement by source separation. Torcoli, Wu, Dick, Williams, Halimeh, Wolcott, and Habets presented the dataset at ICASSP 2024. The package also carries the raw scores and the listening test software.
The scores come from a MUSHRA test run in two laboratories, in Germany and the United States. Each of the 30 trials has one reference, two low-pass anchors at 3.5 and 7 kHz, and five processed samples, and listeners rated Basic Audio Quality from 0 to 100. Results from 26 expert listeners remain after post-screening, which dropped one listener per laboratory for scoring the hidden reference below 90 for more than 15% of trials. The design uses Potato's listening_test scheme with method mushra, which adds the hidden reference and the two anchors, shuffles the samples per listener, switches between the samples at the same playback position, and labels the slider Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, and Bad. Five trials ship, cut to 2 seconds, one each from the trumpet, glockenspiel, clapping, guitar, and violin recordings, and the dialogue enhancement class, the training session, and the three-session split are left out. Potato builds the anchors, so the anchors are similar to ODAQ's and not identical.
ODAQ's audio carries a license per file, and the files mix CC BY, CC BY-NC, and CC0. Only the five CC BY 4.0 and CC0 originals are used here, and media/LICENSE-media.txt names each source, author, and license. No model_training block is included, because no registered Potato trainer consumes a listening_test scheme. The ratings are exported for analysis with python -m potato.export --format listening_test, which reports means and 95% intervals per condition and applies the BS.1534-3 post-screening.
- Audio samples
- 240
- Trials
- 30 (5 in this design)
- Processed samples per trial
- 5, plus the reference and 2 low-pass anchors
- Processing method classes
- 6
- Listeners after post-screening
- 26 (15 recruited in Germany, 13 in the US, 1 excluded in each)
- Subjective scores
- 6,240
- Average sample duration
- 12.5 s
- Anchors
- Low-pass at 3.5 and 7 kHz
- Excerpts in this design
- 5 trials, 2 s each
Configuration File
This Potato config reproduces the annotation task. Save it as config.yaml and run potato start config.yaml to try it.
# ODAQ: a MUSHRA listening test on the Open Dataset of Audio Quality
#
# Dataset: ODAQ (Open Dataset of Audio Quality), Fraunhofer IIS and Netflix.
# Paper: Torcoli, M., Wu, C.-W., Dick, S., Williams, P. A., Halimeh, M. M.,
# Wolcott, W., and Habets, E. A. P. (2024). ODAQ: Open Dataset of Audio
# Quality. ICASSP 2024, pp. 836-840. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00197
# BibTeX (Crossref):
# @inproceedings{Torcoli_2024, title={Odaq: Open Dataset of Audio Quality},
# DOI={10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10447634},
# booktitle={ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
# publisher={IEEE},
# author={Torcoli, Matteo and Wu, Chih-Wei and Dick, Sascha and Williams, Phillip A. and Modar Halimeh, Mhd and Wolcott, William and Habets, Emanuël A. P.},
# year={2024}, month=Apr, pages={836-840}}
# DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447634
# Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/10405774 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10405774)
# Licence: ODAQ mixes CC BY, CC BY-NC and CC0 audio, per original file
# (_detailed_license.csv). The five trials in media/ use only CC BY 4.0 and
# CC0 originals, each credited in media/LICENSE-media.txt.
#
# Protocol (Torcoli et al. 2024, Sections 3.1 and 4.1, arXiv v1):
# "ODAQ consists of 30 trials; each trial consists of one source (i.e.,
# reference), two low-pass anchors as recommended by [4], and 5 processed
# samples." ([4] is ITU-R BS.1534.)
# "The 6240 subjective scores are Basic Audio Quality (BAQ) scores collected
# via an extensive MUSHRA test [4] involving 26 expert listeners."
# "15 listeners participated in Germany, while 13 listeners participated in
# the US." One listener per laboratory was excluded "for having rated the
# hidden reference below 90 MUSHRA points for more than 15% of all trials".
# Before the 30 test trials (3 sessions of 10), listeners did a training
# session of "3 trials with audio samples that are not used in the full test".
# The anchors are low-pass filtered references at 3.5 and 7 kHz (the paper's
# LP3.5 and LP7). The score axis in the paper's results figure runs 0 to 100
# with the five BS.1534 quality labels Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, and Bad.
#
# Scale: Potato's mushra method shows one 0-100 slider per sample, labeled
# Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, and Bad, and it adds the hidden
# reference and the two low-pass anchors itself. Samples are shuffled per
# listener, and playback switches between them at the same position, with an
# optional loop. By default the listener must hear every sample, and one
# sample must be rated 100 (require_one_at_100) before the page accepts the
# ratings.
#
# Adaptations:
# - Five trials, not 30, each cut to a 2 s window of the trial files and
# re-encoded (16-bit; WAV reference, FLAC processed files) to keep media/
# near 5 MB. The five trial files used here are 7.5 to 11.5 s long (ODAQ
# averages 12.5 s). Only CC BY and CC0 originals are used.
# The trials cover five of the six method classes (TM, SH, PE, LP, UN).
# The dialogue enhancement class (DE) is left out to keep the demo small.
# - Each trial carries the five processed files from ODAQ's trial folder.
# ODAQ's two anchor files are not shipped. Potato makes its own 3.5 and
# 7 kHz low-pass anchors from the reference (brick-wall filter with a
# 200 Hz taper), so the anchors are similar to, not identical with, ODAQ's.
# - ODAQ ran in a purpose-built JUCE application in acoustically damped
# listening rooms on closed-back headphones. This design runs in the
# browser, and the listener's equipment is not controlled.
# - The 3-trial training session and the split into three sessions are not
# reproduced (a training page would be a `phases` entry). The paper's
# post-screening rule is not applied automatically here. The export below
# applies Potato's BS.1534-3 post-screening to the collected ratings.
# - The paper does not print its listener instructions, but the Zenodo
# package ships them (listening_test_instructions/
# listening_test_instructions_english.docx, ODAQ's authors). They tell
# listeners to rate "overall sound quality considering any and all detected
# differences with the reference" on "a continuous scale varying between 0
# and 100", and to rate the hidden reference "with 100 points". The wording
# of `instructions` and `annotation_instructions` below follows that
# sense but is written for this design and is not ODAQ's text.
# - Condition names in the data file (tm3k, sh10_ms, and so on) are ODAQ's
# file names. Listeners never see them, since Potato presents opaque slots.
# - No model_training block. No registered Potato trainer consumes a
# listening_test scheme, so the ratings are exported for analysis only:
# python -m potato.export --config config.yaml --format listening_test --output out/
# writes ratings by condition, with means, 95% intervals and the
# post-screening.
#
# Run: potato start config.yaml -p 8000
annotation_task_name: "ODAQ MUSHRA listening test"
data_files:
- sample-data.json
item_properties:
id_key: id
text_key: text
task_dir: .
output_annotation_dir: annotation_output
export_annotation_format: jsonl
media_directory: media
user_config:
allow_all_users: true
users: []
annotation_instructions: >-
Each trial has an open reference and several samples. Listen to the
reference, then to every sample, and score the Basic Audio Quality of each
sample against the reference on the 0 to 100 scale. One sample is the
reference itself and should be scored 100.
annotation_schemes:
- annotation_type: listening_test
name: baq
method: mushra
description: "Rate the basic audio quality of each sample against the reference"
instructions: >-
Switch between the reference and the samples as often as you like, and
use the loop to compare a short passage. Score the Basic Audio Quality of
every sample from 0 (Bad) to 100 (Excellent). One of the samples is the
hidden reference.
reference_field: reference
stimuli_field: stimuli
anchors: [3500, 7000]
hidden_reference: true
loop: true
label_requirement:
required: true
Sample Data
[
{
"id": "odaq_001",
"text": "Trial 1: solo trumpet (2 s excerpt)",
"reference": "/media/trumpet_ref.wav",
"stimuli": {
"tm3k": "/media/trumpet_TM3k.flac",
"tm5k": "/media/trumpet_TM5k.flac",
"tm7k": "/media/trumpet_TM7k.flac",
"tm9k": "/media/trumpet_TM9k.flac",
"tm10p5k": "/media/trumpet_TM10p5k.flac"
}
},
{
"id": "odaq_002",
"text": "Trial 2: solo glockenspiel (2 s excerpt)",
"reference": "/media/glockenspiel_ref.wav",
"stimuli": {
"sh10_ms": "/media/glockenspiel_SH10_MS.flac",
"sh20_ms": "/media/glockenspiel_SH20_MS.flac",
"sh30_ms": "/media/glockenspiel_SH30_MS.flac",
"sh50_ms": "/media/glockenspiel_SH50_MS.flac",
"sh70_ms": "/media/glockenspiel_SH70_MS.flac"
}
}
]
// ... and 3 more itemsGet This Design
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git clone https://github.com/davidjurgens/potato-showcase.git
cd potato-showcase/audio/listening-tests/odaq-mushra-audio-quality
potato start config.yamlDataset & paper
Torcoli et al., ICASSP 2024
- Paper DOI
- 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10447634
- Dataset DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.10405774
Citation (BibTeX)
@inproceedings{Torcoli_2024,
title = {Odaq: Open Dataset of Audio Quality},
doi = {10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10447634},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10447634},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
publisher = {IEEE},
author = {Torcoli, Matteo and Wu, Chih-Wei and Dick, Sascha and Williams, Phillip A. and Modar Halimeh, Mhd and Wolcott, William and Habets, Emanuël A. P.},
year = {2024},
month = apr,
pages = {836--840}
}Details
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