Firstly, thank you for the amazing apps - I am a teacher and tried over 15 apps for plant identification for my students, yours won hands down. Nearly all my students are now using Seek on a daily basis and show me the results - it is changing their lives. We would love a feature that would use a p…

why stop at birds? lots of other things make noises. i think curated sounds, like curated photos, might be nice on taxon pages, too.

[image] johnmontgomeryrouse: Nearly all my students are now using Seek on a daily basis and show me the results - it is changing their lives. 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 b…

[image] tiwane: 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 I would have thought that image recognition is far more difficult in that you have a 2 dimensional image of a 3 dimensional scene, and separating …

[image] tiwane: 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. How do those apps which identify a song or even a movie from just a small sample of the sound work? Perhaps those techn…

[image] danaleeling: How do those apps which identify a song or even a movie from just a small sample of the sound work? here’s the paper that describes the first major implementation: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf . here’s someone who describes how to code this: h…

I am an amateur music composer producer/editor and I have always been impressed by how much longer everything takes with sound than with image, because time has to pass. So tiwane’s suggesion of spectograms made immediate sense. Much as I love sound. And especially Nature sounds like bird calls and …

[image] pisum: i would guess that this algorithm might be too sensitive to variations of a call between individuals and even different instances of an individual’s own calls and doesn’t account for some of the subtleties that make one sound different from another Yes we aren’t trying to match…

[image] tony_wills: But I’m sure that I’ve heard of applications automatically IDing bird songs yes, i’m not saying it couldn’t be done. i’m just saying the way that music recognition apps do it might not work. do you know of any apps that are particularly good and how they work? [image] …

It is almost certainly technically possible, whether it’s possible to make something that is accurate enough to be useful in a reasonable amount of time is another matter. There are bat detector which will automatically identify bats so generating IDs from sounds is clearly possible. “The Echo Met…

A search for “automatically identify bird songs” gets lots of apps, and adding “open source” to that search produces a few really interesting projects. Here’s a couple that perked my interest: https://sites.google.com/site/kenyabioacoustics/ http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/bird-audio-det…

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