Table 1 Text prompts to perform zero-shot classification for each benchmark.

From: Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

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Benchmarks

Text prompts

1

Jackdaw

Is this a sound of birds chirping or noise?

2

Freefield

Is this a sound of birds chirping or noise?

3

Warblr

Is this a sound of birds chirping or noise?

4

Rfcx

Is this a sound of birds singing far in the background or frogs?

5

Hiceas

Is this a sound of whale vocalizations or noise?

6

Enabirds

Is this a sound of birds chirping or noise?

7

Meerkat

Is this a sound of meerkats clucking or non-animal noise?

8

Tropical-Gunshots

Is this a sound of gunshots in the distance or broken branches and noise?