@INPROCEEDINGS{Grootel2009,
  author = {M.W.W. Grootel, T.C. Andringa, J.D. Krijnders},
  title = {{DARES-G1}: {D}atabase of {A}nnotated {R}eal-world {E}veryday {S}ounds},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the NAG/DAGA Meeting 2009},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Rotterdam},
  abstract = {The moment the reader reads this sentence he/she might hear the air-conditioning,
	a chair squeaking, a computer humming and a colleague ddling. These
	are examples of everyday sounds and hearing these and interpreting
	what they caused them is everyday listening: a seemingly simple perceptual
	ability that has thus-far eluded our technical abilities. Everyday
	listening can be contrasted to musical listening [1]. Musical listening
	is studied by psychoacousticians and focuses on the (perceptual)
	properties of sound such as pitch and loudness that describe the
	sound, but ignores the events that produced the sound. Compared to
	musical listening, everyday listening has so far received little
	attention from the scientic community. One factor underlying this
	might be the absence of a suitable research database. DARESounds.org,
	Databases of Annotated Real world Everyday Sounds, is an initiative
	to collect annotated databases of everyday sounds that are recorded
	in the full complexity of everyday situations and to make them available
	to the scientic community. Currently the collection is limited to
	the DARES-G1 database described in this paper, but more databases
	are being compiled. DARES-G1, G refers to the city of Groningen (NL),
	aims to be as good an approximation of everyday sounds as is realistically
	possible. Additionally, DARES-G1 aims to be suitable for auditory
	perception research and as validation of (future) everyday sound
	recognition systems.}
}