The ESC-50 dataset is a collection of 2,000 annotated environmental sound recordings for research on environmental sound classification. The dataset mainly includes 2,000 5-second recordings, which can be divided into five categories: animals, nature, humans, indoors, and outdoors.

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@inproceedings{piczak2015dataset, title = {{ESC}: {Dataset} for {Environmental Sound Classification}}, author = {Piczak, Karol J.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd {Annual ACM Conference} on {Multimedia}}, date = {2015-10-13}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2733373.2806390}, doi = {10.1145/2733373.2806390}, location = {{Brisbane, Australia}}, isbn = {978-1-4503-3459-4}, publisher = {{ACM Press}}, pages = {1015–1018} }