Published March 7, 2022 | Version 1
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The Soundwel Database: a labeled pig vocalization repository

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland Behavioural Ecology Group, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2. Behavioural Ecology Group, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • 3. Institute of Behavioural Physiology, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), 18196, Dummerstorf, Germany Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Milano, Italy
  • 4. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Universitetstunet 3, 1433, Ås, Norway
  • 5. PEGASE, INRAE, Institut Agro, 35590, Saint Gilles, France
  • 6. University of Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Herbivores, 63122, Saint-Genès Champanelle, France
  • 7. Bureau ETRE, 63210, Bravant, Olby, France
  • 8. Institute of Behavioural Physiology, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), 18196, Dummerstorf, Germany Center for Coastal Research, University of Agder, 4604, Kristiansand, Norway Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Agder, 4604, Kristiansand, Norway
  • 9. Department of Ethology, Institute of Animal Science, 104 01, Prague, Czechia Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences, 165 21, Prague, Czechia
  • 10. Institute of Behavioural Physiology, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), 18196, Dummerstorf, Germany
  • 11. Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland Animal Husbandry and Ethology, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany

Description

This repository contains extracted, individual pig calls labeled according to their context of production, collected as part of the project Soundwel (https://www.soundwel-project.eu/), and used in Briefer et al. 2022. It contains a total of 6888 calls produced by several hundred domestic pigs in 17 different context categories associated with negative or positive emotional valence. See Briefer et al. 2022 for details about the contexts and attributed emotional valence. The settings used to generate the spectrograms from the audio files are also included in the above publication.

Please note that the slaughterhouse recordings used in Briefer et al. 2022 could not be included in the repository due to usage restrictions.

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Soundwel Dataset - Audio and Spectrograms.zip

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