[HN Gopher] A-BiRD uses Raspberry Pi to identify different speci...
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       A-BiRD uses Raspberry Pi to identify different species singing at
       the same time
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-04-26 16:52 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | magnat wrote:
       | No, it doesn't. It uses RPi to record and upload singing.
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       | > A microphone array is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi which is
       | programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird songs, and
       | show audio curves. The Pi then sends that data to BirdNET Sound
       | ID at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for analysis.
        
         | KaiserPro wrote:
         | birdnet runs on device https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-
         | Pi?tab=readme-ov-file
        
           | gerdesj wrote:
           | I recently upgraded mine from a Pi 3 to a 4. Its pretty
           | impressive, even with some pretty rubbish hardware. A fluffy
           | wind muffler for the mic is a good idea and nowhere near as
           | exciting as they ought to be, with a name like that!
        
         | sp332 wrote:
         | The second link in the article goes to
         | https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/classify-birds-acoustically...
         | which says "It uses a USB sound card to pick up bird sounds,
         | and classifies them locally using a pre-trained machine
         | learning model."
         | 
         | But the next link https://sarsef.org/wp-
         | content/uploads/2023/02/Finnegans-Proj... says "The computer is
         | programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird songs, show
         | audio curves, and send all data to BirdNET at the Cornell Lab
         | of Ornithology for analysis in order to determine what kind of
         | bird is present in a specific location".
        
       | buescher wrote:
       | Birdnet is really cool and super easy to set up on a Pi. It's
       | great these kids did some science with it!
       | 
       | When I set one up on my screen porch, I used an off-the-shelf
       | enclosure, an inexpensive lavalier microphone (after I tried a
       | couple other things), an Apple USB-C audio adapter, and a cheapo
       | USB-C to USB-A adapter.
        
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