Introduction to Audio Analysis

Appendix C

Audio Datasets

Abstract

This appendix provides a list of datasets which are available on the Web, that can be used as training and evaluation data for several audio analysis tasks.

Keywords

Audio datasets

Benchmarking

Several datasets and benchmarks that focus on audio analysis tasks are available on the Web. The diversity of the datasets is high with respect to: size, level of annotation, and addressed audio analysis tasks. For example, there are datasets for general audio event classification and segmentation; musical genre classification; speech emotion recognition; speech vs music discrimination; speaker diarization; speaker identification, etc. In addition, these datasets may or may not contain other non-audio media types ...