I have just visited the Warblr web site and watched the video. The project is
kosher (one of the founders has been given a 5 year Fellowship by Queen Mary
University of London for the project).
Warblr is designed to recognise calls AND songs. So far the system can
recognise some 80 spp.
It is a brilliant project and I recommend that birders help financially even
$5-10 would help. The project may sound a bit pie in the sky, but how many of
you would have imagined being able to have multiple field guides in a device
the size of an iPhone 15-20 years ago?
Carl Clifford
> On 29 Oct 2014, at 12:22, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
> Nikolas, it says "Warblr is an audio recognition mobile app that identifies
> bird songs and calls", so perhaps the subject line assumes people won't make
> that distinction.
>
> Peter Shute
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nikolas Haass
>> Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2014 9:13 AM
>> To: Peter Shute;
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] FW: Warblr: an app that recognises
>> birds from their song
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> It appears to be about bird songs, not calls in general. A
>> song is a very specialised subtype of the many call types
>> (flight call, alarm call, contact call, advertisement callŠ
>> just to name a few). As I rarely hear people talk about all
>> these call types, I suggest for convenience to talk about
>> 'song' versus 'calls'.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nikolas
>>
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>>> On 29/10/14 7:04 AM, "Peter Shute" <> wrote:
>>>
>>> After the recent discussion here about automatic recognition of bird
>>> calls, some of you might be interested to follow this up.
>>>
>>> I've got no idea if it's really feasible, or if they'd ever
>> get around
>>> to doing any Australain species anyway.
>>>
>>> Peter Shute
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:
>>> On Behalf Of Dan
>>> Stowell
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2014 2:31 AM
>>> To:
>>> Subject: Warblr: an app that recognises birds from their song
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We've just launched a Kickstarter project, for a mobile app to
>>> recognise birds. It's based on the research we published
>> earlier this
>>> year.* As well as getting the technology into people's
>> hands, our hope
>>> is to collect data that could be useful for conservation
>> monitoring and
>>> for future research. Please help to spread the word if you can:
>>>
>>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1190241008/warblr-an-app
> -that-reco
>>> gni
>>> ses-birds-from-their-son
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Centre for Digital Music
>>> Queen Mary, University of London
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>>> * https://peerj.com/articles/488
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