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---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
  - name: species
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': Atlantic_Spotted_Dolphin
          '1': Bearded_Seal
          '2': Beluga,_White_Whale
          '3': Bottlenose_Dolphin
          '4': Bowhead_Whale
          '5': Clymene_Dolphin
          '6': Common_Dolphin
          '7': False_Killer_Whale
          '8': Fin,_Finback_Whale
          '9': Frasers_Dolphin
          '10': Grampus,_Rissos_Dolphin
          '11': Harp_Seal
          '12': Humpback_Whale
          '13': Killer_Whale
          '14': Leopard_Seal
          '15': Long-Finned_Pilot_Whale
          '16': Melon_Headed_Whale
          '17': Minke_Whale
          '18': Narwhal
          '19': Northern_Right_Whale
          '20': Pantropical_Spotted_Dolphin
          '21': Ross_Seal
          '22': Rough-Toothed_Dolphin
          '23': Short-Finned_Pacific_Pilot_Whale
          '24': Southern_Right_Whale
          '25': Sperm_Whale
          '26': Spinner_Dolphin
          '27': Striped_Dolphin
          '28': Walrus
          '29': Weddell_Seal
          '30': White-beaked_Dolphin
          '31': White-sided_Dolphin
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 1179470284
    num_examples: 1357
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 154350686
    num_examples: 340
  download_size: 1217429434
  dataset_size: 1333820970
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
task_categories:
- audio-classification
tags:
- multiclass
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Watkins Marine Mammal Sound (WMMS) Database

Sound files on this website are free to download for personal or academic (not commercial) use. 
Sound files and associated metadata are credited as follows: "Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the New Bedford Whaling Museum."
Database could be found and downloaded from [here](https://archive.org/details/watkins_202104).

In this database version, the audio archive includes sounds of 32 species: 

 - Atlantic_Spotted_Dolphin
 - Bearded_Seal
 - Beluga,_White_Whale
 - Bottlenose_Dolphin
 - Bowhead_Whale
 - Clymene_Dolphin
 - Common_Dolphin
 - False_Killer_Whale
 - Fin,_Finback_Whale
 - Frasers_Dolphin
 - Grampus,_Rissos_Dolphin
 - Harp_Seal
 - Humpback_Whale
 - Killer_Whale
 - Leopard_Seal
 - Long-Finned_Pilot_Whale
 - Melon_Headed_Whale
 - Minke_Whale
 - Narwhal
 - Northern_Right_Whale
 - Pantropical_Spotted_Dolphin
 - Ross_Seal
 - Rough-Toothed_Dolphin
 - Short-Finned_Pacific_Pilot_Whale
 - Southern_Right_Whale
 - Sperm_Whale
 - Spinner_Dolphin
 - Striped_Dolphin
 - Walrus
 - Weddell_Seal
 - White-beaked_Dolphin
 - White-sided_Dolphin

Since there is no official train/test split, we use 80% of the samples for training (1357) and the rest for testing (340).