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This dataset was curated mainly to cater to mitigation strategies for the Human-Peafowl Conflict that exists in these regions. The absence of natural predators has contributed to a significant increase in the peafowl population, exacerbating challenges for farmers. Peafowls are sometimes considered agricultural pests due to their tendency to feed on and damage crops. The vocalizations are from the Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), a species native to the Indian subcontinent and especially abundant in India and Sri Lanka.

With the progress made in speaker-adaptive TTS approaches, advanced approaches have shown a remarkable capacity to reproduce the speaker’s voice in the commonly used TTS datasets. However, mimicking voices characterized by substantial accents, such as non-native English speakers, is still challenging. Regrettably, the absence of a dedicated TTS dataset for speakers with substantial accents inhibits the research and evaluation of speaker-adaptive TTS models under such conditions. To address this gap, we developed a corpus of non-native speakers' English utterances.

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Forest environmental sound classification is one use case of ESC which has been widely experimenting to identify illegal activities inside a forest. With the unavailability of public datasets specific to forest sounds, there is a requirement for a benchmark forest environment sound dataset. With this motivation, the FSC22 was created as a public benchmark dataset, using the audio samples collected from FreeSound org.