README.md

metadata

pretty_name: AudioVerse
language:
  - en
tags:
  - audio
  - text
  - annotations
  - audio-text-retrieval
configs:
  - config_name: all
    default: true
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/*/*.parquet
  - config_name: audioset
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/audioset/*.parquet
  - config_name: audioset_sl
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/audioset_sl/*.parquet
  - config_name: audiostock
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/audiostock/*.parquet
  - config_name: bbc_sound_effects
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/bbc_sound_effects/*.parquet
  - config_name: epic_sound
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/epic_sound/*.parquet
  - config_name: free_to_use_sounds
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/free_to_use_sounds/*.parquet
  - config_name: freesound
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/freesound/*.parquet
  - config_name: sonniss_game_effects
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/sonniss_game_effects/*.parquet
  - config_name: soundbible
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/soundbible/*.parquet
  - config_name: vggsound
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/vggsound/*.parquet

AudioVerse

AudioVerse provides 1.4M audio annotation records for audio-text retrieval. The dataset is described in Re-purposing Multimodal Large Language Models for Audio-Text Retrieval.

This release contains text annotations only; audio files are not included.

Data format

Annotations are stored in Parquet files with five string fields:

Field	Description
dataset	Source dataset name.
id	Sample identifier within the source dataset.
long_caption	Detailed description of the audio content.
short_caption	Concise description of the audio content.
tag_caption	Comma-separated tags describing sounds and events.

Each record is uniquely identified by (dataset, id).

Released annotations

Dataset	Annotation records
audioset	683,316
audioset_sl	84,920
audiostock	9,001
bbc_sound_effects	45,577
epic_sound	60,055
free_to_use_sounds	5,733
freesound	256,432
sonniss_game_effects	5,005
soundbible	1,232
vggsound	173,913
Total	1,325,184

For AudioCaps and Clotho annotations, please refer to the original official documentation:

• AudioCaps
• Clotho

Loading

Load the complete collection:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("Jazzcharles/AudioVerse", "all", split="train")

Load an individual source using its name from the table above:

dataset = load_dataset("Jazzcharles/AudioVerse", "sonniss_game_effects", split="train")