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Audio Recognition Tasks

Audio Task Description Typical Use Cases Real-World Examples
Audio Tagging Multi-label classification of sounds Environmental tagging, music tagging Bird call detection, Spotify genre tags
Sound Event Detection Temporal localization and classification of events Surveillance, wildlife monitoring Detecting alarms, animal call timestamps
Audio Classification General classification of audio clips Speaker ID, language detection Call center speaker classification
Speaker Recognition Identify or verify speaker identity Voice authentication Phone unlocking by voice
Acoustic Scene Class. Classify recording environment Context-aware apps Detecting office vs. street environment
Music Information Ret. Musical feature extraction Music recommendation, transcription Shazam song ID, karaoke apps
Speech Recognition Transcribe spoken language Assistants, subtitling Google Assistant commands, YouTube captions
Emotion Recognition Detect emotional state in speech Customer service evaluation Stress detection in calls
Audio Source Separation Separate individual sounds Remixing, noise cancellation Separating vocals/instruments in music
Audio Enhancement Remove noise, improve audio quality Teleconferencing, hearing aids Noise suppression in Zoom calls