| --- |
| 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](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18010). |
|
|
| 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](https://audiocaps.github.io/) |
| - [Clotho](https://zenodo.org/records/3490684) |
|
|
| ## Loading |
|
|
| Load the complete collection: |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| dataset = load_dataset("Jazzcharles/AudioVerse", "all", split="train") |
| ``` |
|
|
| Load an individual source using its name from the table above: |
|
|
| ```python |
| dataset = load_dataset("Jazzcharles/AudioVerse", "sonniss_game_effects", split="train") |
| ``` |
|
|
