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license: apache-2.0
Positive Transfer Of The Whisper Speech Transformer To Human And Animal Voice Activity Detection
We proposed WhisperSeg, utilizing the Whisper Transformer pre-trained for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for both human and animal Voice Activity Detection (VAD). For more details, please refer to our paper
Positive Transfer of the Whisper Speech Transformer to Human and Animal Voice Activity Detection
Nianlong Gu, Kanghwi Lee, Maris Basha, Sumit Kumar Ram, Guanghao You, Richard H. R. Hahnloser
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
This multi-species dataset was customized for Human and Animal Voice Activity Detection (vocal segmentation) when training the multi-species WhisperSeg-large segmenter..
Download Dataset
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
snapshot_download('nccratliri/vad-multi-species', local_dir = "data/multi-species", repo_type="dataset" )
For more usage details, please refer to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/nianlonggu/WhisperSeg