Pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) calls for passive acoustic monitoring

Data accompanying the paper: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning"

Please cite this dataset as:

Dufourq, Emmanuel and Batist, Carly and Foquet, Ruben and Durbach, Ian. (2022). Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning. BioRxiv doi: 

This dataset contains approximately 6 hours of audio that contained calls of the pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura). The audio data was collected in the Intaka Island Nature Reserve in Cape Town, South Africa using 1 Audiomoth. The sampling rate was set to 48,000Hz and the recordings were obtained over four days in January 2021. A larger dataset exists.

The annotations files are in (.svl) format which is compatible with SonicVisualiser (https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/). Each audio file has a corresponding .svl file. Each .svl has segments of audio that were manually annotated as either ''thyolo-alethe" (presence class) or "noise" (absence class) -- this dataset can be used to train a binary classification model.

The audio files are provided in "Audio.zip" and the manually verified annotation in "Annotations.zip".