{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/audb-sharing-and-versioning-of-audio-and","title":"audb -- Sharing and Versioning of Audio and Annotation Data in Python","arxiv_id":"2303.00645","date":"2023-03-01","proceeding":null,"authors":["Hagen Wierstorf","Johannes Wagner","Florian Eyben","Felix Burkhardt","Björn W. Schuller"],"abstract":"Driven by the need for larger and more diverse datasets to pre-train and fine-tune increasingly complex machine learning models, the number of datasets is rapidly growing. audb is an open-source Python library that supports versioning and documentation of audio datasets. It aims to provide a standardized and simple user-interface to publish, maintain, and access the annotations and audio files of a dataset. To efficiently store the data on a server, audb automatically resolves dependencies between versions of a dataset and only uploads newly added or altered files when a new version is published. The library supports partial loading of a dataset and local caching for fast access. audb is a lightweight library and can be interfaced from any machine learning library. It supports the management of datasets on a single PC, within a university or company, or within a whole research community.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00645v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.00645v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"audb-sharing-and-versioning-of-audio-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/audeering/audb","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"management","task_name":"Management"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":null,"method_name":"Library"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}