Friends:
I will be going to the Brazilian Amazon starting in July for 3 months
volunteering at a eco-lodge (Cristaleno Jungle Lodge). I am not
acquainted with the bird sounds for that area and want to begin
learning them so I will have some skill identifying by sound before I
get there.
What I am looking for is a web-browser based software program where
one can select from a list of songs. These would then be played at
random. After the song is played, the song is identified by a screen
shot of the name.
A really ideal program would remember which ones I got wrong and
replay these. Also, with the screen shot of the name, a picture might
also appear.
The closest program that I have found is Hot Potatoes. It is a program
for developing online quizes for the classroom. I would have to modify
the programs, but it is possible to get what I need with some work. I
was just wondering if there was already something out there that is
turnkey and ready to go.
I know that there are learning programs based on commercial CDs for
American birds, but would like something that can be programed for
this specific need.
Also, has anyone been to this jungle lodge? If so, would appreciate
your views.
Alan Control
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:23:27 2005
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:15:20 -0500
From: Lang Elliott <>
Subject: Re: Sound editing & sonogram software on PC
Syd:
Nearly all programs allow you to stretch or compress the time scale,
allowing you to back off for a general look, or zoom in to a particular
portion of a song for finescale analysis.
Lang
What a wealth of expert information is generated by Naturerecordists. (Eve=
n
if a lot of it is beyond my ability to understand it.)
Compiled, it would make a wonderfully useful book, but I guess the same
problem as with the electronics comes up: there are simply too few nature
sound recordists to interest a publisher. (Unless perhaps if there is some
way we naturerecordists could turn publisher.)
A lot of attention is being given in recent postings to the frequency scale
of sonagrams. What about the relation between the time scale and the
frequency scale?
Imagine a note which is a glissando slide up in pitch. Shorten the time
scale relative to the frequency and it approaches a vertical stroke on a
sonagram. Lengthen it enough and the trace approaches horizontal.
Anyone like to comment on the approaches adopted by various sonagram-type
programs?
Syd Curtis in Australia.
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