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PodcastMix: A dataset for separating music and speech in podcasts
Nicolás Schmidt, Jordi Pons, Marius Miron
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We introduce PodcastMix, a dataset formalizing the task of separating background music and foreground speech in podcasts. We aim at defining a benchmark suitable for training and evaluating (deep learning) source separation models. To that end, we release a large and diverse training dataset based on programatically generated podcasts. However, current (deep learning) models can incur into generalization issues, specially when trained on synthetic data. To target potential generalization issues, we release an evaluation set based on real podcasts for which we design objective and subjective tests. Out of our experiments with real podcasts, we find that current (deep learning) models may have generalization issues. Yet, these can perform competently, e.g., our best baseline separates speech with a mean opinion score of 3.84 (rating "overall separation quality" from 1 to 5). The dataset and baselines are accessible online.
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