Song Scope software is a powerful tool to help you efficiently review recordings made by Song Meter or other recording equipment. At the core of Song Scope is a spectrogram viewer that let's you scroll through even large audio files (up to 2GB) to visually inspect spectrograms of long recordings. With practice, you will begin to recognize the visual patterns corresponding to the vocalizations you are interested in. Viewing audio files as spectrograms with your eyes is typically 10-20 times more time efficient than listening to the same recordings with your ears. Of course, you can always play selected samples of the recordings in Song Scope to let your ears help with identification.
Song Scope also has powerful patented classification algorithms designed to automatically scan through many recordings to look for specific patterns of interest. This is very useful for finding "needles in haystacks". You can think of the Song Scope classifiers (called "Recognizers") as a seive for sifting through thousands of hours of audio recordings to find the most likely occurrences of a specific vocalization of interest. The results can then be quickly reviewed and confirmed.
1. Annotate Known Vocalizations
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2. Generate a "Recognizer"
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3. Search Field Recordings with One Click
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| Start with your own recordings of the vocalizations you are interested in studying. This is the "training data" used to teach Song Scope how to recognize a new vocalization. With Song Scope, you can quickly listen to portions of these recordings and label them with "annotations". In this example, the song of a Cerulean Warbler is selected and annotated to be used as training data. | Next, Song Scope builds a "recognizer" by analyzing the annotated recordings you provide. In this example, a recognizer is contructed from training data containing a number of known samples of Cerulean Warbler vocalizations. These vocalizations are "imported" into Song Scope, and you can adjust a handful of parameters to guide Song Scope's algorithms for better results. At the push of the "Generate Recognizer" button, Song Scope automatically analyzes the selected vocalizations to build a "recognizer" using Song Scope's patented algorithms. | Finally, you can use the "recognizer" to quickly scan new recordings to detect similar vocalizations by pressing the "Start Scan" button. In this example, several instances of possible Cerulean Warbler vocalizations are listed in a spreadsheet. By clicking on one of the rows, Song Scope automatically views the spectrogram of the detected vocalization. With sufficient training data, Song Scope is typically 80% accurate for even complex and highly variable vocalizations in even somewhat noisy environments. However, results may vary depending on a number of factors. |
For more information about the algorithms and their performance, please read our white paper:
Automatically Identifying Animal Species from their Vocalizations
You may also be interested in reading our report featuring Song Scope software in a demonstration deployment for the U.S. Forest Service San Dimas Technology and Development Center in cooperation with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program:
Automatic Detection of Cerulean Warblers
Finally, you may be interested in reading through Song Scope's documentation.
Try Song Scope for 15 days at no charge.
 | Song Scope 3.x Software per-User per-Device "Device" is defined in the software license agreement and refers to the computer on which Song Scope software is to be installed. This should not be confused with the Song Meter devices. In other words, Song Scope pricing has nothing to do with the number of Song Meters (if any) you use. Also note that floating seat licenses are also available. Please Contact us for details. | ||
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