metadata

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).