General-purpose Tagging of Freesound Audio with AudioSet Labels: Task Description, Dataset, and Baseline

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This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled "General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels".

• This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge".
• The goal of the task is to build an audio tagging system that can recognize the category of an audio clip from a subset of 41 diverse categories drawn from the AudioSet Ontology.
• We present the task, the dataset prepared for the competition, and a baseline system.