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The DNC dataset contains 4377 environmental background noise recordings labeled according to the type of noise. The recordings are approximately equally balanced between three main categories, i.e., *"mechanic"*, *"melodic"*, and *"quiet"*. These noise categories were selected as we found in a previous study that these are the background noises that can distract users in crowdsourcing when performing tasks. The recordings were collected through the audio-web API employing different Windows and Mac computers.