At IWAENC 2014, a new freely available multichannel audio database that has been recorded by members of the Audio Analysis Lab in collaboration with Signal and Information Processing at Dept. of Electronic systems will be presented. We believe that such a database has been long overdue!

The database is called Signal- and Multichannel Audio Recordings Database (SMARD). The database contains recordings from a box-shaped listening room for various loudspeaker and array types. The recordings were made for 48 different configurations of three different loudspeakers and four different microphone arrays. In each configuration, 20 different audio segments were played and recorded ranging from simple artificial sounds to polyphonic music. SMARD can be used for testing algorithms developed for numerous application, and we give examples of source localisation results.

You can read more and download the database at http://www.smard.es.aau.dk/.