Not that I know of, and I have searched quite a bit.
iBird has a search function that includes the type of call or song. For example, you can search for "Hoot - Hooting" and the program will return the matching birds. You can then play the call of each bird. It's a bit cumbersome but it works. The search can be further narrowed down by using the region (or state), common or uncommon, and other criteria.
I use a voice recorder program to capture the call (with GPS information) so I can review it later.
For more info, visit http://ibird.com/. I have iBird Pro 6.1 on the iPhone and also had it on the iPad. Recently I have purchased their "Waite's Guide to Birds of North America". See my other post. It looks like their sale price is still available. It has the search function as described above plus other goodies.
Roger,
Strange as it seems, one of the founders of SoundHound's father is a physician here in Long Beach. He and I are in Rotary together. I sent Dr. Hom an email suggesting that SoundHound do a program. Stranger things have happened.
Patrick
Patrick,
That would be great. I remember reading about betas a while ago (or plans therefore) but nothing since. It might be a challenging search function because the bits of recorded music are known and "locked", whereas birds have their own character, voice and may perform impromptus. Still, there are many bird songs that are available at Cornell and probably other libraries. Thanks for following up and please keep us posted.
Roger
Roger,
This is the communication between Dr. Hom and me. His son is one of the founders of SoundHound and is still listed on their Board.
"Patrick,
I will forward your request to my son. It will be a good challenge for his programmer in his organization. Thank you for your suggestion.
Lun
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Patrick O'Healy <pohealy@ohealycommercial.com> wrote:
Dr. Hom,
You know my wife and me from Rotary. I think we were on a harbor cruise together once.
I am a bird photographer, and there are hundreds of thousands of birders around the world. An easy offshoot for SoundHound would be to do a program that identifies bird songs. I would pay $100 for a program that can do that. We have programs like IBird that play bird sounds and they have them categorized by phonetic identification so you can try to narrow it down.
It seems that it would be relatively easy to adapt the SoundHound program to include birds. The company could sell it separately. The market is not as large as that for music, but with 200 of the most likely birds in North America, no more than 3 songs each, that is only 600 sets of algorithms. I would think that this would be a relatively easy task and could be financially fruitful.
Cornell University has the premier ornithological department in the world. If you take a look at the Iphone program, IBird, you can hear bird songs for a variety of species. If we can only do the reverse and record a song and quickly identify the species that would be hot.
Are you willing to pass my email on to your son? Thank you for your consideration.
Roger,
James Hon one of the founders of SoundHound sent me the following email:
Hi Patrick,
Thank you for your email. We receive requests like this from bird enthusiasts all the time, and it's something that we could consider down the road. However, we currently don't have plans to expand into bird identification at this time. If things change I'll be sure to let you know.
I just heard a radio interview with some folks who have developed software to identify frogs in Puerto Rico from their sounds. They would be interested in hearing from birdirs to develop similar softwar for birds. Their website is http://www.arbimon.net/arbimon/index.php/home-acoustics
Buck,
Thank you for the info. James Hom from Soundhound. emailed me out of the blue tonight saying the market is not large enough for them at this time. Not sure why he did since in previous email he told me they were not interested.
Discussion
7 repliesiBird has a search function that includes the type of call or song. For example, you can search for "Hoot - Hooting" and the program will return the matching birds. You can then play the call of each bird. It's a bit cumbersome but it works. The search can be further narrowed down by using the region (or state), common or uncommon, and other criteria.
I use a voice recorder program to capture the call (with GPS information) so I can review it later.
For more info, visit http://ibird.com/. I have iBird Pro 6.1 on the iPhone and also had it on the iPad. Recently I have purchased their "Waite's Guide to Birds of North America". See my other post. It looks like their sale price is still available. It has the search function as described above plus other goodies.
Strange as it seems, one of the founders of SoundHound's father is a physician here in Long Beach. He and I are in Rotary together. I sent Dr. Hom an email suggesting that SoundHound do a program. Stranger things have happened.
Patrick
That would be great. I remember reading about betas a while ago (or plans therefore) but nothing since. It might be a challenging search function because the bits of recorded music are known and "locked", whereas birds have their own character, voice and may perform impromptus. Still, there are many bird songs that are available at Cornell and probably other libraries. Thanks for following up and please keep us posted.
Roger
This is the communication between Dr. Hom and me. His son is one of the founders of SoundHound and is still listed on their Board.
"Patrick,
I will forward your request to my son. It will be a good challenge for his programmer in his organization. Thank you for your suggestion.
Lun
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Patrick O'Healy <pohealy@ohealycommercial.com> wrote:
Dr. Hom,
You know my wife and me from Rotary. I think we were on a harbor cruise together once.
I am a bird photographer, and there are hundreds of thousands of birders around the world. An easy offshoot for SoundHound would be to do a program that identifies bird songs. I would pay $100 for a program that can do that. We have programs like IBird that play bird sounds and they have them categorized by phonetic identification so you can try to narrow it down.
It seems that it would be relatively easy to adapt the SoundHound program to include birds. The company could sell it separately. The market is not as large as that for music, but with 200 of the most likely birds in North America, no more than 3 songs each, that is only 600 sets of algorithms. I would think that this would be a relatively easy task and could be financially fruitful.
Cornell University has the premier ornithological department in the world. If you take a look at the Iphone program, IBird, you can hear bird songs for a variety of species. If we can only do the reverse and record a song and quickly identify the species that would be hot.
Are you willing to pass my email on to your son? Thank you for your consideration.
Patrick"
James Hon one of the founders of SoundHound sent me the following email:
Hi Patrick,
Thank you for your email. We receive requests like this from bird enthusiasts all the time, and it's something that we could consider down the road. However, we currently don't have plans to expand into bird identification at this time. If things change I'll be sure to let you know.
Best,
James
Thank you for the info. James Hom from Soundhound. emailed me out of the blue tonight saying the market is not large enough for them at this time. Not sure why he did since in previous email he told me they were not interested.