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SoundDescs
We introduce a new audio dataset called SoundDescs that can be used for tasks such as text to audio retrieval, audio captioning etc. This dataset contains 32,979 pairs of audio files and text descriptions. There are 23 categories found in SoundDescs including but not limited to nature, clocks, fire etc.
SoundDescs can be downloaded from here and retrieval results for this dataset can be found in the associated paper Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries: A Benchmark Study.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard 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 | ||||
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| Text to Audio Retrieval | SoundDescs | CE R@1 31.1±0.2 | Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries: A Benchmark Study | akoepke/audio-retrieval-benchmark | 4 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
1 shown of 1 paper 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 8. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries: A Benchmark Study | 1 | 4 | 17 Dec 2021 | not harvested |
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License archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
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