LAION CLAP
Search a sound collection with text, compare audio and descriptions, or build taggers.
UnderstandingOpen-source code
- Start here
- Search a few dozen familiar sounds with plain descriptions. Judge the returned sounds yourself; similarity is not a measure of harmonic compatibility.
- Training data
- LAION-Audio-630K and AudioSet; larger checkpoints add music and speech collections.
- Training rights
- The authors publish source links rather than redistributing the full copyrighted audio collection. Rights vary by source.
- License & output terms
- Code: CC0-1.0. Verify the exact weight release and upstream encoder terms.
- Limitations
- Similarity scores are not musical truth or a copyright detector; results depend on prompts, domain and checkpoint.
- Technique
- Contrastive audio / text embeddings
- Runtime
- Local embeddings; a downstream index or classifier is a separate part of an application.
- Parameters
- Not itemized for this release/family. Parameter sizes shown elsewhere may exclude encoders, decoders or other runtime components.
Sources reviewed . Training and rights notes summarize provider disclosures. A model license does not clear every source recording or generated output. Parameter counts refer to the named variant or component, not total runtime memory.