{
  "id": 183777,
  "title": "More Audio Classification data",
  "url": "/competitions/birdsong-recognition/discussion/183777",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-09-18T01:50:01.298847500Z",
  "votes": 4,
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  "content": "<p>Now that this competition is over, many of us might be asking ourselves, what's next? I found myself being more interested in audio classification projects. I did a websearch and found some links to really interesting audio datasets. Check them out:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.xeno-canto.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Xeno-Canto</a>: The famous Xeno-canto recordings. Thinking of scraping for a few classes, and refining the methods used in this competition to improve accuracy of birdcall detection.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/Jakobovski/free-spoken-digit-dataset\" target=\"_blank\">Digit Sounds Recordings</a>: The MNIST of audio. I uploaded a version on Kaggle: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/alanchn31/free-spoken-digits\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/alanchn31/free-spoken-digits</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset/\" target=\"_blank\">AudioSet</a>: an expanding ontology of 632 audio event classes and a collection of 2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/\" target=\"_blank\">Million Song Dataset</a>: This is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://dcase.community/\" target=\"_blank\">DCASE</a> Detection and Classification of<br>\nAcoustic Scenes and Events,  computational analysis of sound events and scene analysis  (Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213\" target=\"_blank\">@hidehisaarai1213</a>) </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html\" target=\"_blank\">Speech Commands Dataset</a> 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people (Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/nyleve\" target=\"_blank\">@nyleve</a>)</p>\n<p>I'll update if I find more interesting datasets. Do provide some recommendations as well if you have any. Happy Kaggling everyone!</p>",
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      "id": "1015145",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 01:50:01",
      "content": "<p>Now that this competition is over, many of us might be asking ourselves, what's next? I found myself being more interested in audio classification projects. I did a websearch and found some links to really interesting audio datasets. Check them out:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.xeno-canto.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Xeno-Canto</a>: The famous Xeno-canto recordings. Thinking of scraping for a few classes, and refining the methods used in this competition to improve accuracy of birdcall detection.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/Jakobovski/free-spoken-digit-dataset\" target=\"_blank\">Digit Sounds Recordings</a>: The MNIST of audio. I uploaded a version on Kaggle: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/alanchn31/free-spoken-digits\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/alanchn31/free-spoken-digits</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset/\" target=\"_blank\">AudioSet</a>: an expanding ontology of 632 audio event classes and a collection of 2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/\" target=\"_blank\">Million Song Dataset</a>: This is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://dcase.community/\" target=\"_blank\">DCASE</a> Detection and Classification of<br>\nAcoustic Scenes and Events,  computational analysis of sound events and scene analysis  (Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213\" target=\"_blank\">@hidehisaarai1213</a>) </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html\" target=\"_blank\">Speech Commands Dataset</a> 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people (Thanks <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/nyleve\" target=\"_blank\">@nyleve</a>)</p>\n<p>I'll update if I find more interesting datasets. Do provide some recommendations as well if you have any. Happy Kaggling everyone!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Now that this competition is over, many of us might be asking ourselves, what's next? I found myself being more interested in audio classification projects. I did a websearch and found some links to really interesting audio datasets. Check them out:\n\n[Xeno-Canto](https://www.xeno-canto.org/): The famous Xeno-canto recordings. Thinking of scraping for a few classes, and refining the methods used in this competition to improve accuracy of birdcall detection.\n\n[Digit Sounds Recordings](https://github.com/Jakobovski/free-spoken-digit-dataset): The MNIST of audio. I uploaded a version on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/alanchn31/free-spoken-digits\n\n[AudioSet](https://research.google.com/audioset/): an expanding ontology of 632 audio event classes and a collection of 2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos\n\n[Million Song Dataset](https://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/): This is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.\n\n[DCASE](http://dcase.community/) Detection and Classification of\nAcoustic Scenes and Events,  computational analysis of sound events and scene analysis  (Thanks @hidehisaarai1213) \n\n[Speech Commands Dataset] (https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html) 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people (Thanks @nyleve)\n\nI'll update if I find more interesting datasets. Do provide some recommendations as well if you have any. Happy Kaggling everyone!",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "1015165",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 02:32:40",
      "content": "<p>Thank you so much for uploading these links. I have always been intrigued by audio classification and all the papers written on it. Have a nice day!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you so much for uploading these links. I have always been intrigued by audio classification and all the papers written on it. Have a nice day!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1015189",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 03:06:58",
      "content": "<p>No problem! Audio is a really interesting field with potential to develop quickly in the short term. I am trying to get more practice in this area as well. Thanks for your interest.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "No problem! Audio is a really interesting field with potential to develop quickly in the short term. I am trying to get more practice in this area as well. Thanks for your interest.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1015352",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 06:16:56",
      "content": "<p>Google has a nice speech command dataset here : <br>\n<a href=\"https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html</a><br>\n--&gt; 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people<br>\nIt was partially used in kaggle competition 3 years back : <br>\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Google has a nice speech command dataset here : \nhttps://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html\n--> 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people\nIt was partially used in kaggle competition 3 years back : \nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1015772",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 12:07:49",
      "content": "<p>Every year, <a href=\"http://dcase.community/\" target=\"_blank\">DCASE</a> community holds a number of competitions. Personally I have never participated in those so far, but been interested in them after Freesound Audio Tagging 2019 last year (which was the first audio competition for me.)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Every year, [DCASE](http://dcase.community/) community holds a number of competitions. Personally I have never participated in those so far, but been interested in them after Freesound Audio Tagging 2019 last year (which was the first audio competition for me.)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1016028",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 15:55:33",
      "content": "<p>Thank you! Added it to the list. DCASE looks interesting, there are multiple challenges available. Definitely worth a look!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you! Added it to the list. DCASE looks interesting, there are multiple challenges available. Definitely worth a look!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1016031",
      "postDate": "09/18/2020 15:59:12",
      "content": "<p>Thank you, this looks interesting! I have added it to the list. I tried implementing some solutions used in tensorflow speech recognition challenge for this competition as well, such as focalloss and f1loss. Speech detection has a nice tie-in with NLP which makes it really interesting.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you, this looks interesting! I have added it to the list. I tried implementing some solutions used in tensorflow speech recognition challenge for this competition as well, such as focalloss and f1loss. Speech detection has a nice tie-in with NLP which makes it really interesting.",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
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      "id": 1015165,
      "author_name": "rishikeshkanabar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/18/2020 02:32:40",
      "content": "<p>Thank you so much for uploading these links. I have always been intrigued by audio classification and all the papers written on it. Have a nice day!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1015189,
          "author_name": "alanchn31",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/18/2020 03:06:58",
          "content": "<p>No problem! Audio is a really interesting field with potential to develop quickly in the short term. I am trying to get more practice in this area as well. Thanks for your interest.</p>",
          "votes": null,
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1015352,
      "author_name": "nyleve",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/18/2020 06:16:56",
      "content": "<p>Google has a nice speech command dataset here : <br>\n<a href=\"https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html</a><br>\n--&gt; 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people<br>\nIt was partially used in kaggle competition 3 years back : <br>\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
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        {
          "id": 1016031,
          "author_name": "alanchn31",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/18/2020 15:59:12",
          "content": "<p>Thank you, this looks interesting! I have added it to the list. I tried implementing some solutions used in tensorflow speech recognition challenge for this competition as well, such as focalloss and f1loss. Speech detection has a nice tie-in with NLP which makes it really interesting.</p>",
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      "id": 1015772,
      "author_name": "hidehisaarai1213",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/18/2020 12:07:49",
      "content": "<p>Every year, <a href=\"http://dcase.community/\" target=\"_blank\">DCASE</a> community holds a number of competitions. Personally I have never participated in those so far, but been interested in them after Freesound Audio Tagging 2019 last year (which was the first audio competition for me.)</p>",
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          "id": 1016028,
          "author_name": "alanchn31",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/18/2020 15:55:33",
          "content": "<p>Thank you! Added it to the list. DCASE looks interesting, there are multiple challenges available. Definitely worth a look!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
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    "1015145": "Now that this competition is over, many of us might be asking ourselves, what's next? I found myself being more interested in audio classification projects. I did a websearch and found some links to really interesting audio datasets. Check them out:\n\n[Xeno-Canto](https://www.xeno-canto.org/): The famous Xeno-canto recordings. Thinking of scraping for a few classes, and refining the methods used in this competition to improve accuracy of birdcall detection.\n\n[Digit Sounds Recordings](https://github.com/Jakobovski/free-spoken-digit-dataset): The MNIST of audio. I uploaded a version on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/alanchn31/free-spoken-digits\n\n[AudioSet](https://research.google.com/audioset/): an expanding ontology of 632 audio event classes and a collection of 2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos\n\n[Million Song Dataset](https://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/): This is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.\n\n[DCASE](http://dcase.community/) Detection and Classification of\nAcoustic Scenes and Events,  computational analysis of sound events and scene analysis  (Thanks @hidehisaarai1213) \n\n[Speech Commands Dataset] (https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html) 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people (Thanks @nyleve)\n\nI'll update if I find more interesting datasets. Do provide some recommendations as well if you have any. Happy Kaggling everyone!",
    "1015165": "Thank you so much for uploading these links. I have always been intrigued by audio classification and all the papers written on it. Have a nice day!",
    "1015189": "No problem! Audio is a really interesting field with potential to develop quickly in the short term. I am trying to get more practice in this area as well. Thanks for your interest.",
    "1015352": "Google has a nice speech command dataset here : \nhttps://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/launching-speech-commands-dataset.html\n--> 65,000 one-second long utterances of 30 short words, by thousands of different people\nIt was partially used in kaggle competition 3 years back : \nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge",
    "1015772": "Every year, [DCASE](http://dcase.community/) community holds a number of competitions. Personally I have never participated in those so far, but been interested in them after Freesound Audio Tagging 2019 last year (which was the first audio competition for me.)",
    "1016028": "Thank you! Added it to the list. DCASE looks interesting, there are multiple challenges available. Definitely worth a look!",
    "1016031": "Thank you, this looks interesting! I have added it to the list. I tried implementing some solutions used in tensorflow speech recognition challenge for this competition as well, such as focalloss and f1loss. Speech detection has a nice tie-in with NLP which makes it really interesting."
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