![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdhttp://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/ has a birdsong identifier.
"Now you can identify birdsongs in the field in real time. Just point Song Sleuth in the direction of a birdsong. In seconds, the software analyzes, identifies and rank-orders the prime suspects and displays the results."
"Song Sleuth uniquely combines the latest signal processing and directional microphone technologies with birdsong recordings from the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It's not a mere birdsong dictionary or flashcard pack. It's a totally new high-tech tool for birders at all levels"
"Now you can identify birdsongs in the field in real time. Just point Song Sleuth in the direction of a birdsong. In seconds, the software analyzes, identifies and rank-orders the prime suspects and displays the results."
"Song Sleuth uniquely combines the latest signal processing and directional microphone technologies with birdsong recordings from the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It's not a mere birdsong dictionary or flashcard pack. It's a totally new high-tech tool for birders at all levels"
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 06:08 pm (UTC)Now, to be a grouch: expensive and very limited. Their coverage (bird-wise) for the US regions I'm familiar with is really incomplete, and it looks like the thing only knows about 134 songs *total*. Given the similar numbers of songs (just under 60) that it knows for each region, I'm betting that it's a hardware limitation that won't get any better, and the initial $500 only gets you one region's worth of songs. I can go to the library and get the same songs on tape (or CDs!) for free, and learning them in my brain is fun! (For me and the cats, both.) Some tapes and CDs are fairly functionally organized as an aid to field identification, too, with groupings of similar songs, which puts the lie to some of their ad copy. Oh, and it might be vaporware, since it's "Out of Stock" until March.