Hi All, I've been recording from my home in south Louisiana with set-ups like Chris and David over the last few years. I've been using the oldbird software (tseep, etc), but only get about 20% of the flight calls that I would otherwise detect by ear (and visually on spectrographs). Not only is the detection software missing many calls, it's also underestimating the richness that I could get. In one of my best fall nights I more than doubled the species richness by listening through the entire night compared to running it through the software. What's also frustrating is that I get a TON of trash clips - many more than birds clips. I've tried to filter out background noise (which is mostly insects and air conditioning units) before running the file through the auto-detect software, but it doesn't change the results much. I haven't toyed with the other programs that have been mentioned in this threat, but as I understand it, they also don't get near 100% - or am I wrong - it sounds like this technology improving quickly. This list serve is giving me new inspiration to hook up the mic this fall and to play around with more settings and programs. I'm eager to see the upcoming manuscript and to hear everyone's thoughts on this subject!
Happy listening, Erik Johnson Lafayette, LA [email protected] -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html --
