sbvoicedb 0.6.0

Saarbrueken Voice Database Downloader and Reader

This Python module provides capability to download and organize Saarbrücker Stimmdatenbank (Saarbrücken Voice Database, https://stimmdb.coli.uni-saarland.de/) with SQLAlchemy (sqlalchemy.org).

Features

• Auto-download the database file at https://stimmdb.coli.uni-saarland.de

• Auto-download the associated datasets from Zonedo: https://zenodo.org/records/16874898

• Supports incremental, on-demand download per-pathology

• Stores database information as a local SQLite3 file

• Database and datasets are accessed via SQLAlchemy ORM (Object Relational Mapper) classes for ease of use

• Acoustic and EGG signals can be retrieved as NumPy arrays directly

• Supports filters to specify study conditions on pathologies, speaker’s gender and age, recording types, etc.

• Fixes known errors in the dataset (i.e., corrupted files and swapping of acoustic/EGG data)

Install

pip install sbvoicedb

If you prefer manually downloading the full dataset from Zonedo (data.zip, the full dataset, 17.9 GB) you may download the file first and unzip the content to a directory. Make sure that the zip file’s internal structure is preserved. If you’re placing your downloaded database in my_svd folder, its directory structure should appear like this:

.../my_svd/
└── data/
    ├── 1/
    │   ├── sentnces
    │   │   ├── 1-phrase.nsp
    │   │   └── 1-phrase-egg.egg
    │   └── vowels
    │       ├── 1-a_h.nsp
    │       ├── 1-a_h.nsp
    │       ⋮
    │       └── 1-u_n-egg.egg
    ├── 2/
    │   │   ├── 2-phrase.nsp
    │   │   └── 2-phrase-egg.egg
    │   └── vowels
    │       ├── 2-a_h.nsp
    │       ├── 2-a_h.nsp
    │       ⋮
    │       └── 2-u_n-egg.egg
    ⋮

Examples

from sbvoicedb import SbVoiceDb

dbpath = '<path to the root directory of the extracted database>'

# to create a database instance
db = SbVoiceDb(dbpath)
# - if no downloaded database data found, it'll automatically download the database (not files)

This creates a new database instance. If dbpath does not contain the SQLite database file, sbvoice.db, it gets populated from the downloaded CSV file.

Note

The sbvoice.db database file can be viewed using any SQLite database viewer such as DB Browser for SQLite (https://sqlitebrowser.org/)

If any portion of the dataset is already available in data subdirectory, it further populates the recordings table. These database population processes are visualized with progress bars in the console.

By default, no dataset will be downloaded at this point. You can check how much of the datasets are available by

print(f"{db.number_of_sessions_downloaded}/{db.number_of_all_sessions}")

The db.number_of_all_sessions property should always return 2043.

There are 4 tables to the SQLite database: pathologies, speakers, recording_sessions, and recordings. The contents of these tables can be accessed by

db.get_pathology_count()
db.get_speaker_count()
db.get_session_count()
db.get_recording_count()

db.iter_pathologies()
db.iter_speakers()
db.iter_sessions()
db.iter_recordings()

Your study may not require all the recordings. In such case, you can set filters on each table when creating the database object. For example, the following creates a subset of the database which only consists of recordings of sustained /a/ or /i/ at normal pitch, uttered by women of age between 50 and 70 with normal voice or with a diagnosis of Laryngitis:

from sbvoicedb import Pathology, Speaker, RecordingSession, Recording, sql_expr

db_laryngitis = database.SbVoiceDb(
    dbdir,
    pathology_filter=Pathology.name == "Laryngitis",
    include_healthy=True,
    speaker_filter=Speaker.gender == "w",
    session_filter=RecordingSession.speaker_age.between(50, 70),
    recording_filter=Recording.utterance.in_(("a_n", "i_n")),
)
print(f"number of pathologies found: {db_laryngitis.get_pathology_count()}")
print(f"number of recording sessions found: {db_laryngitis.get_session_count()}")
print(f"number of unique speakers: {db_laryngitis.get_speaker_count()}")
print(f"number of recordings: {db_laryngitis.get_recording_count()}")

number of pathologies found: 1
number of recording sessions found: 45
number of unique speakers: 44
number of recordings: 90

You can iterate over the rows of any of the tables:

# iterate over included pathologies
for patho in db_laryngitis.iter_pathologies():
  print(f'{patho.id)}: {patho.name} ({patho.downloaded})'

# iterate over included speakers
for speaker in db_laryngitis.iter_speakers():
  print(f'{speaker.id)}: {speaker.gender}'

# iterate over included recording sessions
for session in db_laryngitis.iter_sessions():
  print(f'{session.id)}: speaker_id={session.speaker_id}, speaker_age={session.speaker_age}, speaker_health={session.type}'

# iterate over included recordings
for rec in db_laryngitis.iter_recordings():
  print(f'{rec.id)}: session_id={rec.session_id}, utterance={rec.utterance}, nspfile={rec.nspfile}, eggfile={rec.eggfile}'

To retrieve the acoustic and egg data, use Recording.nspdata and Recording.eggdata:

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

rec = next(db_laryngitis.iter_recordings())

t = np.arange(rec.length)/rec.rate

fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1, sharex=True)
axes[0].plot(t,rec.nspdata)
axes[0].set_ylabel('acoustic data')
axes[1].plot(t,rec.eggdata)
axes[1].set_ylabel('EGG data')
axes[1].set_xlabel('time (s)')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

License

• sbvoicedb is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. See the LICENSE file for details.

• Saarbruecken Voice Database released under CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). sbvoicedb programmatically downloads the recordings directly from https://zenodo.org, except for the metadata CSV file (summary.csv) in data.zip. This file is included in the sbvoicedb package at sbvoicedb/summary.csv.