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The ESC-50 dataset is a public labeled set of 2000 environmental recordings (50 classes, 40 clips per class, 5 seconds per clip) suitable for environmental sound classification tasks.
See ESC: Dataset for Environmental Sound Classification - paper replication data for the full paper with a more thorough analysis.
The dataset consists of 50 classes of recordings in 5 loosely defined groups:
Animals
- 101 - Dog
- 102 - Rooster
- 103 - Pig
- 104 - Cow
- 105 - Frog
- 106 - Cat
- 107 - Hen
- 108 - Insects (flying)
- 109 - Sheep
- 110 - Crow
Natural soundscapes & water sounds
- 201 - Rain
- 202 - Sea waves
- 203 - Crackling fire
- 204 - Crickets
- 205 - Chirping birds
- 206 - Water drops
- 207 - Wind
- 208 - Pouring water
- 209 - Toilet flush
- 210 - Thunderstorm
Human, non-speech sounds
- 301 - Crying baby
- 302 - Sneezing
- 303 - Clapping
- 304 - Breathing
- 305 - Coughing
- 306 - Footsteps
- 307 - Laughing
- 308 - Brushing teeth
- 309 - Snoring
- 310 - Drinking - sipping
Interior/domestic sounds
- 401 - Door knock
- 402 - Mouse click
- 403 - Keyboard typing
- 404 - Door - wood creaks
- 405 - Can opening
- 406 - Washing machine
- 407 - Vacuum cleaner
- 408 - Clock alarm
- 409 - Clock tick
- 410 - Glass breaking
Exterior/urban noises
- 501 - Helicopter
- 502 - Chainsaw
- 503 - Siren
- 504 - Car horn
- 505 - Engine
- 506 - Train
- 507 - Church bells
- 508 - Airplane
- 509 - Fireworks
- 510 - Hand saw
Clips have been constructed from public field recordings gathered by the Freesound.org project. The dataset has been prearranged into 5 folds. Clips stemming from the same original source file are contained in a single fold.
File naming scheme:
category_id - category_name/fold_number-Freesound_clip_ID-take_letter.ogg
File details:
5-second-long recordings reconverted to a unified format:
- 44100 Hz,
- single channel (monophonic),
- Vorbis/Ogg compression @ 192 kbit/s.
The dataset can be downloaded as a single .zip file (~200 MB):
Waveforms and mel-spectrograms of ESC-50 dataset recordings:
The dataset is available under the terms of the Creative Commons license - Attribution-NonCommercial.
A smaller subset (ESC-10) is available under CC BY (Attribution).
In academic settings please cite:
K. J. Piczak. ESC: Dataset for Environmental Sound Classification. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, in press, ACM, 2015.
Due to GitHub limitations (README length limit) licensing details for individual clips are available in the plain text README.