{"id":2404,"date":"2010-09-14T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T19:24:53","slug":"automatic-song-recognition-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/2404","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Song Recognition Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hermann Redies and the folks at Xeno-Canto<\/a> have just launched an ambitious project called Pai-Luiz<\/a>, which attempts to automatically identify recordings of unknown bird sounds by looking through the entire Xeno-Canto database for matching syllables.\u00a0 It’s just a prototype system at the moment — not particularly user-friendly yet, nor particularly accurate, but it still represents a huge leap forward in online automatic sound identification.<\/p>\n

To give Pai-Luiz a try, you have to log in as a Xeno-Canto user, upload two different WAV files of the sound, and specify a precise bandwidth — as Hermann explains in the online documentation<\/a>, you need to be pretty familiar with sound editing and spectrograms in order to do all this.\u00a0 Once you upload a sound, Pai-Luiz takes up to an hour to process your request and email you a long list of recordings that might match yours.\u00a0 The list is only a group of best-guess suggestions and there’s no guarantee that it contains a match — the actual identification still falls to you, the human user.\u00a0 But when it works correctly, Pai-Luiz cuts down a lot on your workload — instead of having to listen to tens of thousands of recordings, you only have to sort through a few dozen possible matches.<\/p>\n

Hermann is looking for users to try out the system and give feedback so that he can improve it.\u00a0 If you’ve got a little extra time, you might want to feed it some known and unknown sounds to see what it kicks back.<\/p>\n

(By the way: Hermann is a co-founder of Association “M\u00e3e-da-Lua”, which purchased a Nature Reserve for the birds of the threatened caatinga habitat in northeastern Brazil, but can no longer afford to keep it open.\u00a0 The reserve is looking for buyers or donors; for more information, see Hermann’s website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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