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[AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Birdnet-go is a real-time sound analyzer that detects bird species. It can take in audio from microphones. I set mine up to stream audio from my security cameras that I already had installed. There's even a Home Assistant App, if you're using it.

I live in a more suburban/semi-urban environment, but was really surprised to so many different bird species.

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

It's an AI program specifically to use AI models to recognise birds. If you're against AI you should probably learn to recognise them manually.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "AI" is a pretty bad blanket term. BirdNet / Merlin is a model trained specifically on bird calls (and some noises) built to recognize bird calls. App and logo use huge general-purpose models to create content of questionable quality.

    And yes, a decent birder should never trust just Merlin ID.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yup... HUGE difference between human curated machine learning and generative AI. AI sure is a buzzword these days, which is why it gets used in marketing, but I think doing so is confusing people who don't know enough to distinguish between the different flavors of "AI".

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