Fastl-Rauschen / Fastl-Noise

Back in 1987, we proposed a fluctuating speech noise which simulates average spectral and temporal features of fluent speech. Pertinent references can be found as follows:

• Fastl, H. A background noise for speech audiometry. Audiol. Acoustics 26, 2-13 (1987).
• Fastl, H. and Zwicker, E. Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models, 3rd Ed., Springer Berlin 2007, pp. 352-356

Because of several requests by colleagues, this noise which was termed by our friends "Fastl-Noise" is made available here.
The audio-file is composed as follows:

1) Calibration signal continuous noise (CCITT Rec. 227) for about 40 seconds 2) Calibration signal 1 kHz-tone for about 30 seconds 3) Fastl-Noise for about 60 seconds