Re: Audio monitoring patent

[Walter Knapp <>]

genedorcas wrote:
> This appears to be the system they were working on years ago that was
> going to be used with recordings from our "frogloggers" to automatically
> identiy and monitor frog populations. From what I remember years ago
> they said they couldn't get it to work and had abandoned the project.
> I'll have to look into this a little further.

The idea is ok, it's the details of voice recognition that bog it down.
Some frogcalls only differ slightly. And vary in the details from
individual to individual. It very quickly becomes a custom software
recognizing only limited calls of a specific sub population. You almost
have to rework the software for each site last I heard.

Walt




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