Show HN: Australian Acoustic Observatory Search https://ift.tt/7A8veDg
Show HN: Australian Acoustic Observatory Search The Australian Acoustic Observatory ( https://ift.tt/yRBq6gU ) has 360 microphones across the continent, and over 2 million hours of audio. However, none of it is labeled: We want to make this enormous repository useful to researchers. We have found that researchers are often looking for 'hard' signals - specific call-types, birds with very little available training data, and so on. So we built an acoustic-similarity search tool, allowing researchers to provide an example of what they're looking for, which we then match against embeddings from the A2O dataset. Here's some fun examples! Laughing Kookaburra: < https://search.acousticobservatory.org/search/index.html?q=h... > Pacific Koel: < https://search.acousticobservatory.org/search/index.html?q=h... > Chiming Wedgebill: < https://search.acousticobservatory.org/search/index.html?q=h... > How it works, in a nutshell: We use audio source separation (< h...