ECOSoundSet: a finely annotated dataset for the automated acoustic identification of Orthoptera and Cicadidae in North, Central and temperate Western Europe. 2025

Here you can download ECOSoundSet (European Cicadidae and Orthoptera Sound dataSet), a dataset containing 11,224 recordings of 193 orthopteran and 24 cicada species (209 and 26 subspecies, respectively) present in North, Central, and temperate Western Europe (Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, mainland France and Corsica, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland), collected partly through targeted fieldwork in South France and Catalonia and partly through contributions from various European entomologists. The dataset is composed of a combination of coarsely labeled recordings, for which we can only infer the presence, at some point, of their target species (weak labeling), and finely annotated recordings, for which we know the specific time and frequency range of each insect sound present in the recording (strong labeling). We also provide a train/validation/test split of the annotated recordings, with respective approximate proportions of 0.8, 0.1 and 0.1, in order to facilitate their incorporation in the training and evaluation of deep learning algorithms. The dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International copyright. Recordings are split into <20 Gb tar.gz files to improve compression efficiency and facilitate their download. Use the following commands to download whole and split recordings, respectively, from a terminal (faster than through a browser): "wget -nc $(wget -qO- https://zenodo.org/records/18636037 | grep -o 'https://zenodo.org/records/18636037/files/Whole[^"]*\.tar.gz')" "wget -nc $(wget -qO- https://zenodo.org/records/18636037 | grep -o 'https://zenodo.org/records/18636037/files/Split[^"]*\.tar.gz')"