Call recognition software?

[Nick Payne <>]

Getting a bird to come down to your smartphone/tablet and sing next to it for 15 seconds might prove a bit challenging...

On 03/03/13 08:08, Robin Eckermann wrote:

That application was probably "Shazam" ... and there are one or two similar ones of which I am aware - like "Soundhound". Here's a link describing it a little more, and also explaining the underlying technique ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(service)

A version based on a database of bird calls certainly would be nice ... though the variations may prove challenging.

Regards ... Robin Eckermann

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(excuse brevity & typos - I wrote this on a touch-pad)

On 03/03/2013, at 7:35 AM, martin butterfield <m("gmail.com","martinflab");">> wrote:

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?