HEAR NeurIPS 2021 Datasets (Holistic Evaluation of Audio Representations)

NOTES: * On Zenodo, please make sure you download datasets version 2021.3, not earlier versions. (2021.3 added the Vocal Imitations dataset at 48KHz. 2021.2 updated the tfds datasets.) * The datasets have different open licenses. Please see LICENSE.txt for each individual dataset's license. These are the evaluation tasks for the HEAR (Holistic Evaluation of Audio Representations) 2021 NeurIPS challenge. The aim of this challenge is to develop a general-purpose audio representation that provides a strong basis for learning in a wide variety of tasks and scenarios. The HEAR 2021 challenge invites you to create an audio embedding that is as holistic as the human ear, i.e., one that performs well across a variety of everyday domains: What approach best generalizes to a wide range of downstream audio tasks without fine-tuning? HEAR 2021 evaluates audio representations using a benchmark suite across a variety of domains, including speech, environmental sound, and music. For more information, see the HEAR 2021 website and upcoming PMLR journal article. Datasets were all normalized to a common human-readable format using hearpreprocess. Until 2022-04-01, datasets will be mirrored at data.neuralaudio.ai. This Zenodo mirror has all audio task but only at 48000Hz sampling rate. For other sampling rates (16000, 22050, 32000, 44100), please download files (requester pays) from Google Storage gs://hear2021-archive/tasks/ or AWS s3://hear2021-archive/tasks/