It would be interesting to see how similarity in bird call behavior tracks (or doesn't) the phylogenetic relationship between species. My hypothesis would be that bird calls are influenced by other birds in the same ecosystem (imitation or differentiation, and reflecting a high degree of cultural learning) rather than the null hypothesis of genetic transmission.
Thousands of bird sounds visualized using Google machine learning
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Re: Thousands of bird sounds visualized using Google machine learning
#42It's interesting, at the very local level I think most humans wouldn't think two adjacent bird sounds are all that similar. But if you drag along a long line and listen to a series of different birds you can "hear" a definite organized progression that seems to be organizing rhythm and major tones into groups.
On touch screen it is very BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a nice toy to get some sounds from, to suit a play on Radio 4, that sort of thing. So you could make lots of 'instruments' by applying AI to organising sounds into some space that can be used as per this example and a touchscreen. It my make ornithologists cringe but I think the merit in this work could be elsewhere, as a creative musical instrument of sorts.
Re: Thousands of bird sounds visualized using Google machine learning
#43If you left-click and drag around on this (with short pauses), you can almost hear something that sounds very close to R2-D2.
Re: Thousands of bird sounds visualized using Google machine learning
#44Interesting, spammed a few bird lovers i know with it. Though they almost all replied the recordings are not good enough.
Though personally (jk) i was slightly disappointed when i zoomed out i didn't see a big bird (or other bird) likeness.