[asiachick]

I don't think this issue is specific to freesound but has anyone ever figured out a way to make sounds easy to find? I guess ML might help if could take what's in the sounds (people do that too but they are often wrong or motivated to use false tags). I find finding good and appropriate sounds the hardest part.

[diibv]

Hi, I'm another researcher at the Music Technology Group, which runs Freesound. Definitely, this one of our long-time challenges.

Facilitating search and exploration is one of our main research directions related to Freesound. We do audio ML research, in particular, audio-based auto-tagging (see the already mentioned Freesound Datasets https://annotator.freesound.org/fsd/ we've built for this purpose) but also similarity and clustering based on audio analysis and tags.

So far, Freesound API provides similarity search and audio analysis features.

Have a look at the Freesound Explorer, which is an example of a 2D sound exploration interface built on top of audio features: https://labs.freesound.org/apps/2017/08/21/freesound-explore...