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dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: audio
      dtype:
        audio:
          sampling_rate: 16000
    - name: species
      dtype: string
    - name: label
      dtype:
        class_label:
          names:
            '0': Atlantic_Spotted_Dolphin
            '1': Bearded_Seal
            '2': Beluga,_White_Whale
            '3': Bottlenose_Dolphin
            '4': Bowhead_Whale
            '5': Clymene_Dolphin
            '6': Common_Dolphin
            '7': False_Killer_Whale
            '8': Fin,_Finback_Whale
            '9': Frasers_Dolphin
            '10': Grampus,_Rissos_Dolphin
            '11': Harp_Seal
            '12': Humpback_Whale
            '13': Killer_Whale
            '14': Leopard_Seal
            '15': Long-Finned_Pilot_Whale
            '16': Melon_Headed_Whale
            '17': Minke_Whale
            '18': Narwhal
            '19': Northern_Right_Whale
            '20': Pantropical_Spotted_Dolphin
            '21': Ross_Seal
            '22': Rough-Toothed_Dolphin
            '23': Short-Finned_Pacific_Pilot_Whale
            '24': Southern_Right_Whale
            '25': Sperm_Whale
            '26': Spinner_Dolphin
            '27': Striped_Dolphin
            '28': Walrus
            '29': Weddell_Seal
            '30': White-beaked_Dolphin
            '31': White-sided_Dolphin
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 1179470284
      num_examples: 1357
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 154350686
      num_examples: 340
  download_size: 1217429434
  dataset_size: 1333820970
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
task_categories:
  - audio-classification
tags:
  - multiclass
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

Watkins Marine Mammal Sound (WMMS) Database

Sound files on this website are free to download for personal or academic (not commercial) use. Sound files and associated metadata are credited as follows: "Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the New Bedford Whaling Museum." Database could be found and downloaded from here.

In this database version, the audio archive includes sounds of 32 species:

  • Atlantic_Spotted_Dolphin
  • Bearded_Seal
  • Beluga,_White_Whale
  • Bottlenose_Dolphin
  • Bowhead_Whale
  • Clymene_Dolphin
  • Common_Dolphin
  • False_Killer_Whale
  • Fin,_Finback_Whale
  • Frasers_Dolphin
  • Grampus,_Rissos_Dolphin
  • Harp_Seal
  • Humpback_Whale
  • Killer_Whale
  • Leopard_Seal
  • Long-Finned_Pilot_Whale
  • Melon_Headed_Whale
  • Minke_Whale
  • Narwhal
  • Northern_Right_Whale
  • Pantropical_Spotted_Dolphin
  • Ross_Seal
  • Rough-Toothed_Dolphin
  • Short-Finned_Pacific_Pilot_Whale
  • Southern_Right_Whale
  • Sperm_Whale
  • Spinner_Dolphin
  • Striped_Dolphin
  • Walrus
  • Weddell_Seal
  • White-beaked_Dolphin
  • White-sided_Dolphin

Since there is no official train/test split, we use 80% of the samples for training (1357) and the rest for testing (340).