{"id":17969,"date":"2023-05-21T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=17969"},"modified":"2023-05-22T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:50:46","slug":"merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/dawn-this-morn-reveil-2023-streaming\/\">dawn chorus day<\/a> I&#8217;ve been noticing bird song more than ever. This has lead to wondering which birds are singing. A recognise a very small number. I&#8217;ve tried a couple of apps and my favourite so far is <a href=\"https:\/\/merlin.allaboutbirds.org\/\">Merlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Merlin identifies bird sounds using breakthroughs in machine learning technology to recognize species based on spectrograms\u2014visual representations of sounds<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.ebird.org\/en\/support\/solutions\/articles\/48001185783-sound-id\">Sound ID<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather delightfully you see the names and thumbnails of bird the app recognises. This are hi-lighted each time the bird is heard. Even better you get the same effect playing back the audio. Hopefully this will lead to me being able to recognise a few more bird songs without the app.<\/p>\n<p>How accurate the app is I do not know, but I have seen most of the ones it has identified nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since dawn chorus day I&#8217;ve been noticing bird song more than ever. This has lead to wondering which birds are singing. A recognise a very small number. I&#8217;ve tried a couple of apps and my favourite so far is Merlin. Merlin identifies bird sounds using breakthroughs in machine learning technology to recognize species based on 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