@buteobuteo2 Just FYI you can respond to/quote from multiple other posts in one response instead of making multiple short responses. This really helps keep threads more manageable.
If you are interested in discussing the possibility of including spectrograms as another a type of annotation, there’s an open thread for that: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627
However, this wouldn’t solve the issue, as annotations are properties of an observation, not of an individual picture. As such, they can’t really be used effectively for model training.
None of our discussion, however, or the potential of other/future models to use spectrograms, changes the facts that that the current CV model does not account for them and that staff have asked people not to upload spectrograms.