Clotho-Moment

This repository provides wav files used in Language-based audio moment retrieval.

Each sample includes long audio containing some audio events with the temporal and textual annotation.

Split

• Train
  • train/train-{000..715}.tar
  • 37930 audio samples
• Valid
  • valid/valid-{000..108}.tar
  • 5741 audio samples
• Test
  • test/test-{000..142}.tar
  • 7569 audio samples

Using Webdataset

import torch
import webdataset as wds
from huggingface_hub import get_token
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader


hf_token = get_token()
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/lighthouse-emnlp2024/Clotho-Moment/resolve/main/train/train-{{001..002}}.tar"
url = f"pipe:curl -s -L {url} -H 'Authorization:Bearer {hf_token}'"
dataset = wds.WebDataset(url, shardshuffle=None).decode(wds.torch_audio)

for sample in dataset:
    print(sample.keys())

Citation

@inproceedings{munakata2025language,
  title={Language-based Audio Moment Retrieval},
  author={Munakata, Hokuto and Nishimura, Taichi and Nakada, Shota and Komatsu, Tatsuya},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}