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Clotho
Clotho is an audio captioning dataset, consisting of 4981 audio samples, and each audio sample has five captions (a total of 24 905 captions). Audio samples are of 15 to 30 s duration and captions are eight to 20 words long.
Source: https://zenodo.org/record/3490684 Image Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09387
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 3 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text to Audio Retrieval | Clotho | PaSST-RoBERTa & Estimated Audio–Caption Correspondences R@1 27.69 | Estimated Audio-Caption Correspondences Improve... | optimusprimus/salsa | 12 | Compare |
| Audio captioning | Clotho | SLAM-AAC SPIDEr 0.332 | SLAM-AAC: Enhancing Audio Captioning with Paraphrasing... | X-LANCE/SLAM-LLM | 11 | Compare |
| Zero-shot Audio Captioning | Clotho | ZerAuCap METEOR 9.4 | Zero-shot audio captioning with audio-language model... | explainableml/zeraucap | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
18 shown of 18 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 202. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- Clotho
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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