# General-purpose Tagging of Freesound Audio with AudioSet Labels: Task Description, Dataset, and Baseline

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09902 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.09902/

## Key facts

- Cited by 30 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 26 Jul 2018.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled "General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels". This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge". The goal of the task is to build an audio tagging system that can recognize the category of an audio clip from a subset of 41 diverse categories drawn from the AudioSet Ontology. We present the task, the dataset prepared for the competition, and a baseline system.