IEC 60268-16 STIPA certified verification bench — extract#
What this folder contains#
stipa_certified_extract.zip holds 27 of the 49 signals of the certified
STIPA verification bench published on stipa.info, the
test signals IEC 60268-16:2020 (rev 5) Annexes A and C prescribe for verifying a
STIPA implementation. They are consumed by
tests/speech/test_stipa_certified.py.
| Verification suite | Committed | Of | Why these |
|---|---|---|---|
Annex C.3.2 direct-method modulation depth |
3 | 11 | m = 0 (null), m = 0,9 (worst measured STI deviation of the staircase, 0,0031) and m = 1 (top of the dynamic range, worst measured MTF deviation, 0,0065) |
Annex C.3.3 indirect-method modulation depth |
7 | 7 | the complete suite: two pure decaying carriers per file encode to a few tens of kilobytes |
Annex C.4.2 filter-bank slope |
14 | 14 | the complete suite, for the same reason; this is the criterion that forces an effective skirt attenuation above 41 dB |
Annex A.2.2 weighting/redundancy factors |
2 | 6 | the lowest (125+250) and the highest-STI (1000+2000) band pair |
Annex A.3.1.2 filter-bank phase distortion |
1 | 11 | TI = 0,9, the worst measured phase bias (-0,0029) inside the normative TI = 0,1 .. 0,9 range |
The 49 WAV files are 133 MB of 48 kHz 16-bit PCM which does not compress as
audio, so committing the bench as WAV is out of the question. Each signal here
is stored losslessly: the n-th order difference of its int16 samples as
little-endian int32, LZMA-compressed inside the zip, with manifest.json
recording the order, the sample rate, the length and the SHA-256 of the
original samples. Decoding is n cumulative sums, and the test suite checks
the digest on every load, so what the tests analyse is bit-exact with what
stipa.info publishes. Only the 44-byte RIFF header of each WAV is not
reproduced; the audio samples are.
make_extract.py rebuilds the archive from a local copy of the full bench:
python tests/data/stipa/make_extract.py tests/data-local/stipa-verification
Source and authorship#
- The verification test signals were developed and are published by Embedded Acoustics BV (Jan Verhave), Delft, the Netherlands, on the download page of https://www.stipa.info, together with the signal description IEC-60268-16 revision 5 test signal description, v1.0, 3 June 2020.
- Authoritative record of the terms (cite this one): Internet Archive
capture of
stipa.info/index.php/download-test-signalstaken 2025-09-10, https://web.archive.org/web/20250910080127/https://www.stipa.info/index.php/download-test-signals. The live page at https://www.stipa.info/index.php/download-test-signals carries the same text but is currently defaced (checked 2026-07-30: it serves an injected script that rewrites the document to "Hacked By Simsimi"). A licence claim should not rest on a page an attacker has had write access to, so the archived copy is the citation of record here. The Archive holds captures from 2022-04-23 to 2025-09-10, all predating the compromise; the terms below are identical in the first and the last of them. - Terms, quoted from that capture: "All of the above verification test signals were developed by Embedded Acoustics and may be used for commercial and non-commercial use free of charge." The same page is explicit that the signals are not STIPA measurement signals and that the STIPA measurement signals sold by instrument manufacturers are separately copyrighted; none of those is used here.
- What that grant does and does not say. It grants use free of charge, for commercial and non-commercial purposes alike. It does not use the word "redistribute" about the verification signals — but the page shows that its author treats redistribution as a distinct permission and attaches an explicit condition wherever one is intended: about the manufacturers' measurement signals it says "Bedrock allows unrestricted non-commercial use of their signals, but a paid license is required if you intend to redistribute or promote the signal for use with your own STIPA implementation." No such condition is attached to the verification signals.
- This redistribution rests on our own reading of those terms, not on a permission granted to this repository: an unconditional free-of-charge grant, from an author who conditions redistribution where he means to, over material published precisely so that implementations can be verified against it, is read here as covering a subset carried inside a verification suite. If Embedded Acoustics reads it otherwise, the removal policy below applies and the suites fall back to the local-only bench.
- The encoded blobs in the zip are a lossless re-encoding of that material, not
original Embedded Acoustics files;
manifest.jsonis ours.
Purpose and scope of use#
Embedded Acoustics publishes the bench so that STIPA implementations can be
verified against the criteria of IEC 60268-16 Annexes A and C. The extract in
this folder serves exactly that purpose: it lets
tests/speech/test_stipa_certified.py demonstrate that this library's
independent implementation meets those criteria on every runner, rather than
only on a machine that has the full download. The files are not part of the
phonometry package, are not installed with it, and are not covered by this
repository's MIT licence — the free-of-charge terms above apply to them.
Deliberately excluded: the bundled reference .m Matlab sources (the library is
written from the standard, not from them), the original zip archives, and the
signal-description PDF. The 22 bench signals that are not committed are the
intermediate points of the C.3.2 staircase, four of the six A.2.2 band pairs and
ten of the eleven A.3.1.2 phase points; they are the most costly to encode
(nearly full-entropy multi-tone signals) and each is a further point on a curve
whose ends and worst case are already committed. They run automatically when a
full local copy is present.
Removal policy#
If you represent Embedded Acoustics BV and consider that committing this
extract exceeds the intended use of the verification bench, please open an
issue or contact the maintainer (see CITATION.cff) and it will be removed
promptly, together with the CI use of the tests that read it.