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-# ears_dataset
+# EARS Dataset
+
+We release the **E**xpressive **A**nechoic **R**ecordings of **S**peech (EARS) dataset.
+
+If you use the dataset or any derivative of it, please cite our [Paper](https://arxiv.org/)
+
+```
+@inproceedings{richter2024ears,
+  title={EARS: An Anechoic Fullband Speech Dataset Benchmarked for Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation},
+  author={Richter, Julius and Wu, Yi-Chiao and Krenn, Steven and Welker, Simon and Lay, Bunlong and Watanabe, Shinjii and Richard, Alexander and Gerkmann, Timo},
+  booktitle={Interspeech},
+  year={2024}
+}
+```
+
+## Highlights
+* **100 h** of speech data from **107 speakers**
+* high-quality recordings at **48 kHz** in an anechoic chamber
+* **high speaker diversity** with speakers from different ethnicities and age range from 18 to 75 years
+* **full dynamic range** of human speech, ranging from whispering to yelling
+* 18 minutes of **freeform monologues** per speaker
+* sentence reading in **7 different reading styles** (regular, loud, whisper, high pitch, low pitch, fast, slow)
+* emotional reading and freeform tasks covering **22 different emotions** for each speaker
+
+## Download EARS Dataset
+
+```
+for X in $(seq -w 001 107); do
+  curl -L https://github.com/facebookresearch/ears_dataset/releases/download/dataset/p${X}.zip -o p${X}.zip
+  unzip p${X}.zip
+  rm p${X}.zip
+done
+```
+
+## Download Blind Testset with Noisy Speech
+
+```
+curl -L https://github.com/facebookresearch/ears_dataset/releases/download/blind_testset/blind_testset.zip -o blind_testset.zip
+mkdir blind_testset
+unzip blind_testset.zip -d blind_testset
+rm blind_testset.zip
+```
 
 # License
 The code and dataset are released under [CC-NC 4.0 International license](https://github.com/facebookresearch/ears_dataset/blob/main/LICENSE).