audio-datasets/Public Domain Sounds

Public Domain Sounds

Good for wake word detection; a wide array of sounds that can be used for object detection research. This is a backup of the 635 copyright-free sound recordings submitted to pdsounds.org before April 2009.

The similar version of dataset is uploaded to DagsHub: Public Domain Sounds, enabling you to preview the dataset before downloading it.

Organization of the dataset

The dataset is small (543MB) and simple to navigate as it has only two folders based on audio format. The mp3 folder contains mp3 audio files whereas otherformats folder contains all other formats such as flac and au . We also have an Audio_Files_Description.md file, which contains details about the ever audio files in dataset. The audio files rand from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. A representation of the directory structure can be seen in the ASCII diagram below.

<root directory>
    |
    .- README.md
    |
    .- Audio_Files_Description.md
    |
    .- otherformats/
    |
    .- mp3/
          |
          .- 1 Minute Alexa in Berlin-2 rolltreppe.mp3
          |
          .- 1 Minute Silvester at 2-30 AM in Berlin.mp3
          |
          .- 2month_baby_gabbling.mp3
          | ...

• Audio_Files_Description.md: contains detail description about each audio file.
• otherformats: the folder containing various audio format.

History

pdsounds.org was a Drupal-based sharing platform for public domain sound recordings: a mixture of Freesound and Open Clip Art Library.

On March 2, 2009, an archive of all previously submitted sounds was uploaded to pdsounds.org. It went down a few weeks later.

pdsounds.org is back apparently. See this thread.

Acknowledgments

1. The administrator of pdsound.org was Stephan Möbius [Librivox profile].

2. This backup is being managed by Iwan Gabovitch [site].

3. The web space is being kindly hosted by TuxFamily. You can say thanks to them via donation or participation.

Links

• Check out this list of 3D, 2D and audio resources under free licenses.

• A discussion on this backup was started on the FreeGameDev Forums.

• There's some discussion about a revival of pdsounds.org.

• Use 7-Zip to open the .7z archive. Use Audacity to edit sound files.

• Statistics for this site.

Terms of use

Read the license notice.

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Stephan Möbius, March 2, 2009

Original Dataset: Public Domain Sounds Backup

DAGsHub Dataset: Public_Domain_Sounds

Photo by Denisse Leon on Unsplash

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This open source contribution is part of DagsHub x Hacktoberfest