Hi everyone, I was not aware until today (thank you @argent1277) that there is a new version of the BirdNET app called ‘BirdNET Live’, available on iPhone and Android. It was developed by Stefan Kahl as a collaboration between Chemnitz University of Technology and Cornell University. It draws on se…

This was never a problem to me, in BirdNet, at least in when you selected the bit for analysis, you could go wherever you wanted in that bit. I had a problem with Merlin that I only could save the whole record. So not much use for recording for iNat.

Also in birdNet Live I cannot find how to mark an arbitrary recorded interval for saving. Similar limitation as Merlin. But then it is hard to use for making recordings for iNaturalist. I can at least Apply trim for a single interval. But others in that record will be lost.

You seem to be able to trim, export and then undo the trim to return to the original recording and retrim, maybe that’s a good enough workaround? I hadn’t realised you can trim in-app, that’s also a nice feature that Merlin lacks

Update on this: I asked the developer directly and they replied: Absolutely, yes! We do use iNat audio for training, so if you submit to iNat you’ll help us improve our models. We have pretty decent coverage for birds, but non-bird taxa are challenging - especially insects. So I would say every …

Fantastic, thanks! I had previously set up this project to assist with learning singing insects in my province. If there’s anything that would help the developer with making recordings more useful (e.g. observation fields, notes, copyright level, etc.) that would be great to know. Maybe also if the…

[image] spint: Covers all animal groups including birds, frogs and insects (currently about 5000 species covered worldwide I was excited to find an audio app that includes taxa other than birds! But the help page says “The BirdNET+ V3.0 model identifies 5,250 bird species worldwide”. So on…

Ok, I will ask them what they need. They did say that audio annotated with bounding boxes is the most useful and that Xeno-canto has now introduced this feature. As far as I know, it’s not possible to do this with iNaturalist (?)

@conorflynn You are in North America, I think? Just take the app outside and try it out, I presume that it can ID common insects and frogs where you live. I am in Europe, so can’t verify, but it does pretty well with the common orthopterans here. You can see the list of species it currently covers h…

Yes, it’s not a feature on iNat but there are feature requests for it (would require both of these to be implemented): Automatically add a spectrogram view to observations with sounds Add ability to add/take notes on audio recording

Thanks for the tips for BirdNET Live! It looks quite handy and has the potential to replace my clunky setup of multiple apps: a recording app to trim the clips, notes in a note taking app, and Merlin for ID. Tips for all: to add BirdNet Live clips to iNaturalist (at least on android) easily, one ca…

New BirdNET Live app for acoustic ID

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orionlee01 June 24, 2026, 6:46pm 18

Also, for spectrograms on iNat, japh has provided a browser extension:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/spectrogram-browser-extension-for-inaturalist-by-japh-feedback-welcome/67415

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