| --- |
| pretty_name: BeVo |
| license: other |
| task_categories: |
| - text-to-audio |
| tags: |
| - audio |
| - bioacoustics |
| - animal-vocalization |
| - behavior-conditioned-generation |
| --- |
| |
| # BeVo: Behavior-Vocalization Dataset |
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| <p align="center"> |
| <img src="assets/dataset.svg" width="1000"> |
| </p> |
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| **BeVo** is a behavior-conditioned animal vocalization dataset for generating animal sounds from natural-language descriptions of behaviors, social interactions, and contexts. |
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| BeVo contains **31,191 vocalization events** from **6 species**, organized into **42 vocalization anchors**, with approximately **524.3 minutes of audio**. |
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| The behavioral conditions are associated with recordings through shared vocalization anchors and should be interpreted as **anchor-level behavioral conditions**, rather than event-level ground-truth descriptions of individual recordings. |
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| **Project Page:** https://persimmontian.github.io/BCAVG |
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| | Split | Goat | Hyena | Marmoset | Meerkat | Zebra | Zebra Finch | Total | |
| | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | |
| | Train | 2,826 | 10,216 | 4,800 | 4,475 | 353 | 2,298 | 24,968 | |
| | Validation | 360 | 1,226 | 600 | 564 | 62 | 311 | 3,123 | |
| | Test | 400 | 800 | 600 | 600 | 200 | 500 | 3,100 | |
| | **Total** | **3,586** | **12,242** | **6,000** | **5,639** | **615** | **3,109** | **31,191** | |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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|
| ```text |
| BeVo/ |
| ├── README.md |
| ├── LICENSE |
| ├── dataset.svg |
| │ |
| ├── data/ |
| │ ├── source_datasets.csv |
| │ ├── train/ |
| │ ├── validation/ |
| │ └── test/ |
| │ |
| ├── conditions/ |
| │ ├── train_validation/ |
| │ ├── test_assignments.json |
| │ └── generation_prompt.md |
| │ |
| └── behavior_cards/ |
| └── behavior_cards.xlsx |
| ``` |
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| - `data/` contains the audio events, organized by split, species, and vocalization anchor. |
| - `conditions/train_validation/` contains the behavioral-condition pools used for training and validation. |
| - `conditions/test_assignments.json` contains the fixed audio-condition assignments used for the test set. |
| - `conditions/generation_prompt.md` contains the prompt used to generate behavioral conditions. |
| - `behavior_cards/behavior_cards.xlsx` contains the literature-grounded behavior cards used as the behavioral knowledge source for condition generation. |
| - `data/source_datasets.csv` records the original bioacoustic data sources, publications, persistent identifiers, and source-specific licensing information. |
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| Audio files are organized as: |
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| ```text |
| data/<split>/<species>/<anchor>/*.wav |
| ``` |
|
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| ## Source Data and Licensing |
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| BeVo integrates recordings from six public bioacoustic datasets covering spotted hyena, meerkat, common marmoset, goat, plains zebra, and zebra finch. |
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| Detailed information about the original datasets, publications, persistent identifiers, and licensing terms is provided in: |
|
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| ```text |
| data/source_datasets.csv |
| ``` |
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| BeVo is a **mixed-license dataset**. Third-party audio retains the license or terms of use of its original source dataset. BeVo-created materials are released under the terms described in the repository-level LICENSE, to the extent that the BeVo authors hold the relevant rights. |
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| Please consult both LICENSE and `data/source_datasets.csv` before redistributing or reusing the audio. |
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| ## Citation |
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| If you use the BeVo dataset in your research, please cite our paper: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{deng2026behaviorconditioned, |
| title = {Behavior-Conditioned Animal Vocalization Generation: Event-Aware Modeling and Multidimensional Evaluation}, |
| author = {Deng, Xinlong and Tian, Yong and Guan, Jian and Kong, Qiuqiang and Jiang, Jie and Cao, Yin}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| eprint = {2610.16382}, |
| archivePrefix = {arXiv}, |
| primaryClass = {cs.SD}, |
| url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16382} |
| } |
| ``` |
