Merlin Bird ID
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Merlin Bird ID
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Re: Merlin Bird ID
#2Great app. One improvement I'd like is that if you play back sounds from the app you are allowed to cast the sound to an external speaker. I cannot.
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#3I was wondering what kind of bird was chirping outside my window this morning. I should have had this app.
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#4I'm friends with some of the researchers on the Sound ID portion of this app! The team's gone to great lengths to make sure the machine learning models and evals are solid.
Under the hood, Sound ID is a great example of how "domain-expert-driven" careful research can give more reliable results than just feeding in data and hoping for the best.
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#5Great app. One improvement I'd like is that if you play back sounds from the app you are allowed to cast the sound to an external speaker. I cannot.
I wish when I uploaded a photo for analysis, and the app identifies my bird, that I could keep MY photo and not the generic one in their database. It's great at building a checklist, but not so much for making it feel like my own.
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#6I'm friends with some of the researchers on the Sound ID portion of this app! The team's gone to great lengths to make sure the machine learning models and evals are solid. Under the hood, Sound ID is a great example of how "domain-expert-driven" careful research can give more reliable results than just feeding in data and hoping for the best.
I'm definitely impressed with the sound ID. One time there was a cacophony of birds singing outside my house at varying distances, and the app was able to identify 6 different bird species within 30 seconds. All 6 suggestions seemed reasonable to me.
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#7In general as a bird watcher i’ve been extremely impressed by this tech. I generally trust it.
There’s only a couple of times i’ve been sceptical of it’s id and thats where there’s similar species in the area. Eg. I’m not convinced there really is a purple finch where i live when all i see is house finches all day. But i could be wrong too! It’s proven itself enough that i’m not ready to call it wrong on that one.
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#8Great app. One improvement I'd like is that if you play back sounds from the app you are allowed to cast the sound to an external speaker. I cannot.
On the Android app, tap the share button at the top of the recording play screen. This lets you export the audio WAV file. Select some other audio player app to share to, such as Podcast Addict, and use that app's Cast feature once it opens.
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#9Great app. One improvement I'd like is that if you play back sounds from the app you are allowed to cast the sound to an external speaker. I cannot.
I wish when I uploaded a photo for analysis, and the app identifies my bird, that I could keep MY photo and not the generic one in their database. It's great at building a checklist, but not so much for making it feel like my own.
Have you considered the Vögelschublade method? https://i.insider.com/638a7310b4290800185d0c43?width=1300&fo...
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#10I've been birdwatching (birding?) actively for a few years now, but only this year did I start using these sound identifiers. What a boon it's been! I've already spotted over a dozen new species by sound alone, and also learned to identify some of them by myself.
It really has opened up a whole new venue of enjoying this hobby. At least here, machine learning/AI has a clear, positive impact.