Setting the Standard for Audio Data Management – Magdalena Fuentes on Soundata

#17: Magdalena Fuentes joins Arfon and Abby to discuss her project Soundata. Magdalena shares insights into audio datasets, standardization, and community-driven open-source tools, offering valuable takeaways on reproducibility, dataset management, and open source in machine listening.

Magdalena is an Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Integrated Design & Media at New York University (NYU).

You can follow Magdalena on Twitter/X @mfu3ntes, GitHub @magdalenafuentes, LinkedIn @mfu3ntes https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfu3ntes/ or at her website magdalenafuentes.com.

Episode highlights:

[02:02] - Magdalena's Background and Motivation [02:54] - Challenges in Machine Listening [03:48] - Standardizing Audio Data with Soundata [06:58] - Applications and Benefits of Soundata [12:33] - Industry and Academic Use Cases [13:27] - The Broader Landscape of Audio Data Tools [16:37] - Encouraging Community Contributions [21:48] - Maintaining and Evolving Soundata [29:40] - Future Goals and Vision for Soundata

Links:

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06634
• Soundata repository: https://github.com/soundata/soundata
• Magdalena on Twitter/X @mfu3ntes https://x.com/mfu3ntes, GitHub @magdalenafuentes https://github.com/magdalenafuentes, LinkedIn @mfu3ntes https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfu3ntes/, website: http://magdalenafuentes.com/
• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)
• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• Donate to JOSS

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