As I uploaded a cicada call a moment ago, I thought to myself: “How awesome would it be if iNat analysed and suggested an ID for sounds as well as photographs. Would it be possible for the iNat AI to ‘learn’ sounds?” Unsure if this has been discussed before, how difficult it would be to implement, …

Hi Nick, here’s the previous discussion and staff’s response: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/recognize-sounds-automatically/3527/ [image] Recognize sounds automatically I’m going to close this request. It’s on our radar and might eventually be added if feasible, but I think we’'ll focus on impr…

Would definitely be a cool feature (it might finally mean I stop posting 100 sound recordings of crickets and IDing then as frogs…), but I suspect wouldn’t be a super high priority; of the 54 million verifiable observations at the moment, just 0.2% include sounds. The low number of sounds uploaded …

I would love that. I keep hearing strange sounds that I have no idea where to start. It is surprisingly hard to look for sounds online. One can find frog sounds, bird sounds and the rest are very difficult.

[image] nicklambert: Unsure if this has been discussed before I think it has been but I couldn’t find the previous thread.

Many, many years ago, I wrote the developer of iBird (Mitch Waite) and asked about IDing bird calls, much like Shazam identified music recordings. He explained how much more difficult it would be to do that with nature recordings compared to matching a database of digital studio recordings. Also, …

But there was an app to recognise bat calls, so I think it’ll be on iNat too after some years.

The technology is obviously imperfect, but the Cornell Lab is currently working on developing audio recognition software for birds at least. A live stream of the software processing audio from outside the Lab can be found here: https://birdnet.cornell.edu/live/ As mentioned by others, the wide rang…

I use the Cornell app. It’s called BirdNET (only available for Android right now, IIRC). It is pretty cool when it works, but distance and background noise make it hard for it to work well on a regular basis. Urban environments are HARD. Almost have to be deep in the woods to get anything useful. Th…

I would say phone mic are not perfect sure, but for some people with not good audition its great, and especially among high frequencies, it could be better than most humans. BirdNET’s findings can be very surprising in good forest condition. It’s a great opportunity for everyone without strong photo…

I would say it will be very useful of course. But especially, I’d love to have sound recognition working permanently when using the Seek app. I see a lot of smartphones now have small but kinda powerful teleobjectives… I’d love being able to get accurate IDs on birds and bats I can’t approach, usin…

I have to admit I know very little about sound recognition. Here are some very disorganized thoughts about a few audio species classification projects that I know of. Birdvox ( https://wp.nyu.edu/birdvox/ ) is kind of like microphone trapping for bird migrations. They’re trying to fill in radar data …

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