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license: apache-2.0
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# 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

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> Nianlong Gu, Kanghwi Lee, Maris Basha, Sumit Kumar Ram, Guanghao You, Richard H. R. Hahnloser <br>
> 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
```python
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

## Contact
nianlong.gu@uzh.ch