FW: FW: [canberrabirds] Call recognition software?

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

Can you set it to:  “Lyrebird pretending to be a Pied Currawong, unless it is a Pied Currawong”, at least in locations where there are many Pied Currawongs and few Lyrebirds?

 

From: Con Boekel [
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Geoffrey
That is Lyrebird-centric of you. I was thinking of something like a little machine that says, 'Pied Currawong, unless it is a Lyrebird pretending to be a Pied Currawong'.
Con

On 3/03/2013 9:56 AM, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:

Is the ‘Lyrebird codicil’ the optional extra you present to a calling lyrebird to learn which species, or other original sound, is being mimicked?

 

From: Con Boekel
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Robin, Martin

Would it need the Lyrebird codicil?

Con

On 3/03/2013 8:08 AM, 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?

 

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Martin Butterfield

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