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Audio Tagging

A multi-label task that predicts which sound events are present in an audio clip at the clip level.

Audio tagging focuses not on exact event timing but on whether certain sounds are present anywhere in a clip. This allows broader coverage at lower annotation cost. It is useful for surveillance analytics, media indexing, and automatic categorization of large audio archives. For tasks requiring finer temporal detail, systems often move from tagging toward acoustic event detection.