Hey NFCers, Project Night Flight (a nonprofit), MPG Ranch, and Harold Mills, the developer of the free NFC software Vesper, are looking for Vesper beta testers. We need a handful of people who are seasoned NFCers and computer users with more advanced skills. Vesper allows you to extract the NFCs, review and classify the NFCs (still mostly a manual process, with a user interface similar to that of GlassOFire from Old Bird) and archive them all in one package, but it isn't quite ready for general public use. Vesper currently allows you to use the Old Bird tseep/thrush detectors, BirdVoxDetect (a neural-network-based detector trained on eastern NFCs) and the MPG Ranch tseep/thrush detectors (also neural detectors, but trained on western NFCs recorded mostly in western Montana). At MPG, we use Swift recorders, Wildlife Acoustics SM2/SM3 or PC recorders with Old Bird 21c microphones. There is also a Vesper recorder developed that allows you to record with your home computer. Will also post this to the NFC Facebook page. If you are interested in beta testing Vesper, please email me directly at dle...@mpgranch.com Thanks! Debbie Leick Missoula, MT www.mpgranch.com -- NFC-L List Info:
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