Recognize sounds automatically

That’s awesome! Would love to hear more about that if you want to share. Maybe in this discussion?

Just to make sure I understand you, you’d like to be able to have iNat/Seek suggest IDs from the call of an animal like it does for photos?

I’m not a developer, but I know from discussions we’ve had that sound is more difficult than still images because time is involved - it’s not a static thing. One workaround might be to make spectrograms of a species’ call and then train the computer vision on that image, but it’s still more complicated than image recognition and we’re still in the nascent stages of image recognition. So, definitely on the table but this probably wouldn’t implemented anytime soon.

Note that you can record a sound and upload it via our web uploader for other users to ID, and we are working on adding sound features to the Android app.

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