Does this exist? If not, who’s working on it? I am thinking of a phone app that looks at your geographical location, and suggests species ID’s for cicadas or orthopterans based on the courtship sound of the male. Can iNat’s “computer vision” do this? Would it then be “computer hearing”?

[image] AdamWargon: Does this exist? If not, who’s working on it? This might be difficult for a variety of reasons. Insects are an incredibly diverse group. Obviously, not all insects make distinct sounds, but we are still talking about far more species than birds or bats. Recognizers strug…

Honestly, I have never thought about this, but considering how useful Merlin is (although it has its flaws) I think this would be a great app to have.

I agree that a machine learning model to do this task would be very useful but quite challenging to develop (well) due to the really high diversity of insects and the sounds they produce. An app based on such a model might be very cool, as long as users don’t upload screenshots of the app’s suggest…

I approve your translation, but I thought this app already exists and could be installed on an android phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aquilaecologie.sprinkenapp1 I found a review for this app in a thread https://forum.waarneming.nl/index.php/topic,507173.0.html and I thi…

Is Merlin inaccurate all over the world or just outside Europe and the USA? (Neylon seems to be based in the USA…)

If memory serves, the developers for MerlinID consider Merlin “trained” on a bird when they have 100 clean recordings to train it on. There are quite a few North American species which they don’t 100 clean recordings of, several species of warblers for example. I would imagine that the rest of the…

Sound ID will be expanded in the future to include species worldwide, but to do that, our team needs a minimum of 150 sound recordings for each species to train Merlin to recognize their sounds. Last three months I see many people using this app so I think that after three years the recognition i…

Let’s not turn this into a thread about Merlin, please, unless it’s related to the original question. I agree that insects are probably going to be difficult for the reasons stated above. Something for other vertebrates like frogs and mammals might be more feasible, although I’m certainly no expert…

Frogs calls are definitely ripe for machine learning models to identify calls. Multiple models have been created that do this, though none are worldwide that I am aware of. This dataset for Australia is probably the biggest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040047/ Here’s one from Ja…

Merlin for insects?

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Useful website https://orthsoc.org/sina/

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Merlin for insects?

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