Treble10: A high-quality dataset for far-field speech recognition, dereverberation, and enhancement

TL;DR

Treble10 is a large, physically accurate dataset of room impulse responses and reverberant speech, designed to improve far-field speech recognition and enhancement by bridging the gap between measured and simulated data.

Contribution

It introduces Treble10, a comprehensive, high-fidelity room-acoustic dataset combining wave-based and geometrical acoustics simulations for diverse far-field speech applications.

Findings

Provides over 3000 simulated RIRs in real rooms

Includes paired reverberant and clean speech data

Enables reproducible evaluation and data augmentation

Abstract

Accurate far-field speech datasets are critical for tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), dereverberation, speech enhancement, and source separation. However, current datasets are limited by the trade-off between acoustic realism and scalability. Measured corpora provide faithful physics but are expensive, low-coverage, and rarely include paired clean and reverberant data. In contrast, most simulation-based datasets rely on simplified geometrical acoustics, thus failing to reproduce key physical phenomena like diffraction, scattering, and interference that govern sound propagation in complex environments. We introduce Treble10, a large-scale, physically accurate room-acoustic dataset. Treble10 contains over 3000 broadband room impulse responses (RIRs) simulated in 10 fully furnished real-world rooms, using a hybrid simulation paradigm implemented in the Treble SDK that combines a wave-based and geometrical acoustics solver. The dataset provides six complementary subsets, spanning mono, 8th-order Ambisonics, and 6-channel device RIRs, as well as pre-convolved reverberant speech scenes paired with LibriSpeech utterances. All signals are simulated at 32 kHz, accurately modelling low-frequency wave effects and high-frequency reflections. Treble10 bridges the realism gap between measurement and simulation, enabling reproducible, physically grounded evaluation and large-scale data augmentation for far-field speech tasks. The dataset is openly available via the Hugging Face Hub, and is intended as both a benchmark and a template for next-generation simulation-driven audio research.