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AudioCaps
AudioCaps is a dataset of sounds with event descriptions that was introduced for the task of audio captioning, with sounds sourced from the AudioSet dataset. Annotators were provided the audio tracks together with category hints (and with additional video hints if needed).
Source: Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries
Image source: https://audiocaps.github.io/
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 6 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Generation | AudioCaps | ETTA-FT-AC-100k FD_openl3 61.79 | ETTA: Elucidating the Design Space of Text-to-Audio Models | NVIDIA/elucidated-text-to-audio | 23 | Compare |
| Audio captioning | AudioCaps | MQ-Cap SPIDEr 0.519 | Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Audio Captioning with... | — | 18 | Compare |
| Text to Audio Retrieval | AudioCaps | InternVideo2-6B R@1 55.2 | InternVideo2: Scaling Foundation Models for Multimodal... | opengvlab/internvideo +1 | 11 | Compare |
| Retrieval-augmented Few-shot In-context Audio Captioning | AudioCaps | Audio Flamingo (4-shot) CIDEr 0.518 | Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with... | NVIDIA/audio-flamingo | 5 | Compare |
| Zero-shot Audio Captioning | AudioCaps | Audio Flamingo METEOR 20.5 | Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with... | NVIDIA/audio-flamingo | 4 | Compare |
| Target Sound Extraction | AudioCaps | CLAPSep SDRi 10.08 | CLAPSep: Leveraging Contrastive Pre-trained Model for... | aisaka0v0/clapsep | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
30 shown of 43 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 279. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
The full list of 43 is in the JSON twin.
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
3 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
No language tagged.
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- AudioCaps
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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