SonicCaps: Large-Scale Diverse and Fine-Grained Captioning for Improved Audio-Retrieval
SonicCaps is introduced, a large-scale audio captioning dataset comprising ~15M captions paired with ~700k audio clips, generated using a multi-modal large language model (Qwen3-Omni) conditioned on both audio and text and training CLAP models on SonicCaps with a multi-caption sampling strategy consistently improves au...