README.md

---
annotations_creators:
- derived
language:
- eng
- zxx
license: mit
multilinguality: multilingual
source_datasets:
- mteb/audiocaps_a2t
task_categories:
- other
- text-to-audio
task_ids: []
dataset_info:
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tags:
- mteb
- text
- audio
---
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  <h1 style="font-size: 3.5rem; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 20px 0; letter-spacing: 2px; font-weight: 700;">AudioCapsA2TRetrieval</h1>
  <div style="font-size: 1.5rem; color: #4a4a4a; margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: 300;">An <a href="https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb" style="color: #2c5282; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" onmouseover="this.style.textDecoration='underline'" onmouseout="this.style.textDecoration='none'">MTEB</a> dataset</div>
  <div style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #2c5282; margin-top: 10px;">Massive Text Embedding Benchmark</div>
</div>

Natural language description for any kind of audio in the wild.

|               |                                             |
|---------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Task category | a2t                              |
| Domains       | Encyclopaedic, Written                               |
| Reference     | https://audiocaps.github.io/ |

Source datasets:
- [mteb/audiocaps_a2t](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/audiocaps_a2t)


## How to evaluate on this task

You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:

```python
import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("AudioCapsA2TRetrieval")
evaluator = mteb.MTEB([task])

model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
evaluator.run(model)
```

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To learn more about how to run models on `mteb` task check out the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb).

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as [mteb](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb), as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the [MMTEB Contribution](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/tree/main/docs/mmteb).

```bibtex

@inproceedings{kim2019audiocaps,
  author = {Kim, Chris Dongjoo and Kim, Byeongchang and Lee, Hyunmin and Kim, Gunhee},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)},
  pages = {119--132},
  title = {Audiocaps: Generating captions for audios in the wild},
  year = {2019},
}


@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
  title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
  author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}

@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
  author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Loïc and Reimers, Nils},
  title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
  year = {2022}
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}
```

# Dataset Statistics
<details>
  <summary> Dataset Statistics</summary>

The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:

```python
import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("AudioCapsA2TRetrieval")

desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats
```

```json
{
    "test": {
        "num_samples": 5294,
        "number_of_characters": 258732,
        "documents_text_statistics": {
            "total_text_length": 258732,
            "min_text_length": 14,
            "average_text_length": 58.65608705508955,
            "max_text_length": 210,
            "unique_texts": 4201
        },
        "documents_image_statistics": null,
        "documents_audio_statistics": null,
        "queries_text_statistics": null,
        "queries_image_statistics": null,
        "queries_audio_statistics": {
            "total_duration_seconds": 8708.250125,
            "min_duration_seconds": 1.7415,
            "average_duration_seconds": 9.862117921857305,
            "max_duration_seconds": 10.0,
            "unique_audios": 883,
            "average_sampling_rate": 24000.0,
            "sampling_rates": {
                "24000": 883
            }
        },
        "relevant_docs_statistics": {
            "num_relevant_docs": 4411,
            "min_relevant_docs_per_query": 1,
            "average_relevant_docs_per_query": 4.995469988674972,
            "max_relevant_docs_per_query": 5,
            "unique_relevant_docs": 4411
        },
        "top_ranked_statistics": null
    }
}
```

</details>

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