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Call recognition software?

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Subject: Call recognition software?
From: martin butterfield <>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 07:35:30 +1100
A friend visited yesterday bearing an iPad on which an application - i refuse to use the non-word 'app' - had been loaded which recognises music.  This works by holding the iPad near a loudspeaker on which a song is being played and within about 15 seconds the name of the song appears.  We tested this and got positive results for both artist and song with Bo Diddley - playing the tune of the same name - and Lonnie Donegan doing Rock Island Line.  Metropolitan Klezmer - a semi-pro band from NYC proved beyond its capacity.

I have no idea how this works but it suggests than an application to recognise a fair proportion of bird calls should be technically feasible.  Ha anyone heard of such a program being developed?

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Martin Butterfield
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