Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Voice of America: New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't
Jul 16th 2013, 22:56, by webdesk@voanews.com (Megan McGrath)

Researchers have developed software that can listen to recordings of a rainforest and tell us what animals are there, and importantly, what animals are not. The new technology is free online for anyone to use and conservationists are taking advantage of it. If you listen closely to a recording of a rainforest in Puerto Rico, you probably will not be able to count how many frogs you hear.  Unfortunately, one of those frogs - the one with the really high-pitched chirps, like tapping on ...

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