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TitleURLDescriptionPaid or freeCode availableLicenseTaxonomic or sound type specialization, if anyEcosystem specialization, if anySpecific HardwareTypeData explorationOrganizationAnnotationSound processing featuresAcoustic index measurementAcoustic feature measurementLocalizationDetector featuresClassifier featuresCommentsPublication URL
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acoupihttps://github.com/acoupi/acoupiOpen-source Python framework for deploying bioacoustic AI models on edge devicesFreeYesGPL v3
Command line, Python
Real-time wireless messagingSqlite database, file naming, API network endpoint for third-party application, MQTT and HTTP communication protocolAI-based model processing, can be adapted by configuration settings from user
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acoustic_indiceshttps://github.com/patriceguyot/Acoustic_Indicescalculate acoustic indicesfreeYGPL v3Pythonextract acoustic indices to use as biodiversity proxy
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Adobe Auditionhttps://www.adobe.com/products/audition.htmlgeared toward sound editingpaidNdesktop GUIgeneral-purpose audio reviewedit audio
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Anabat Insighthttps://www.titley-scientific.com/product/anabat-insight/recording organization, review, and classificationfree and paid versionsNbatsterrestrialdesktop GUIbrowse and view files as spectrogramsview labels on built-in mapsfilter and process files with time expansion, pitch shift, etc.calculate pulse and pass acoustic parameters, e.g. max frequencyuse for bat call detection and custom filtering in full-spectrum and zero-crossing recordingscreate decision tree classifiers and support third-party ID algorithms
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Animal Sound Identifierhttps://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.221mq23classify animals using training data directly from field recordings, without reference librariesfreeYcc0birdsterrestrialMATLABcreate cross-correlation classifiers; semi-active learning approach to create classifiers with little initial training datahttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.13092
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ANIMAL-SPOThttps://github.com/ChristianBergler/ANIMAL-SPOTPython framework for building deep learning classification modelsfreeYGPL v3GPU recommended but not requiredPythonuse for binary target sound vs noise detectioncreate ResNet18 CNN classifiershttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26429-y
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APLOSEhttps://osmose.ifremer.fr/app/web-based annotation tool for marine bioacousticsfreeYGPL v3marine wildlifemarineweb GUIvisualize spectrogram and adjust sound speedcreate labels and boxes on spectrogramhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711025000226
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ARBIMONhttps://arbimon.rfcx.orgweb-based interface geared toward analyzing autonomous wildlife survey datafreeNweb GUI, phone applisten and review autonomous recordings on GUI interface; create listening playlistsmanage recorder deployment (phone app); web uploader that supports many common recorder timestamp formatsweb-based annotation GUIaggregate recordings at different temporal and spatial scalescustomize template-matching detection tool; supervised and unsupervised availablefree storage
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ARTWARPhttps://soundanalysis.wp.st-andrews.ac.ukestimate frequency sweeps and cluster-classify tonal soundsfreeNtonal sounds (e.g. bottlenose dolphin whistles and killer whale calls); individual animal recognitionmarineMATLABidentify frequency sweepscreate classifier of tonal sounds using ART neural network
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Audacityhttps://www.audacityteam.org/downloadsimple, lightweight listening and spectrogram viewing, comparison, and manipulationfreeYGPL v3desktop GUIview one or many recording waveforms or spectrograms at oncefull suite of sound editing features
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audiomoth-scriptshttps://github.com/nwolek/audiomoth-scriptsspectrogram visualization and AudioMoth-specific toolsfreeYMITrecordings collected from AudioMoth recordersYcommand lineuse bash scripts for a variety of spectrogram visualizationsuse script to rename AudioMoth hex files to human-readable filenamessome of these scripts were designed for older audio moth firmware that create clips in hexadecimal format
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audioset_soundscape_feats_sethi2019https://github.com/sarabsethi/audioset_soundscape_feats_sethi2019GitHub repo for using machine learned features for soundscape analysesfreeYPythonfeature extractor based on VGGish CNNhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004702117
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Australian Acoustic Observatory Audio Similarity Searchhttps://search.acousticobservatory.org/A bioacoustic search tool using audio similarity search to query Australian Acoustic Observatory datafreeYMITAustralian ecosystemsWeb GUIupload sound and use audio similarity search to find similar sounds within A2O data
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AVAhttps://autoencoded-vocal-analysis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.htmlsegment vocalizations and train generative models of vocalizationsfreeYMITPythonorganize files for plotting and analysisinfer latent descriptions of animal vocalizations using variational autoencoderssegment audio for syllable-level analysishttps://elifesciences.org/articles/67855
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AVEShttps://github.com/earthspecies/avesself-supervised, transformer-based audio representation model for encoding animal vocalizationsfreeYMITgeneral and birdsPythonfine-tune pretrained audio representation model for bioacoustic detection tasksfine-tune pretrained audio representation model for bioacoustic classification taskshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14493
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AVGNhttps://github.com/timsainb/avgn_paper characterize animal vocalizations for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and assessing vocalization sequencing, corpus-building, and generating artificial vocalizationsfreeYMITbirdsPythonextract information about acoustic features using embeddings created by a generative adversarial networkadditional resource:
https://github.com/timsainb/AVGN 		https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008228
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AviaNZhttp://www.avianz.net/index.phpgraphical user interface for organizing, analyzing, and classifying recordingsfreeYGPL v3birdsterrestrialdesktop GUIopen sound files, listen to and visualize audiomanual annotation and segmentationrun wavelet detectorcreate CNN classifiers to finetune classify wavelet detections; pretrained classifiers for several species
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Avisoft-SASLab Prohttp://www.avisoft.com/sound-analysisautomated detection and cross-correlation classificationpaidNdesktop GUIopen sound files, listen to and visualize audiocreate tailored metadatabasesound parameter measurement and noise level measurementfind TDOAs via cross-correlationuse template cross-correlation for event detectioncreate classifiers using template cross-correlationcompatible with GIS applications for field survey map creation and georeferencing
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Banterhttps://github.com/EricArcher/banterpackage used to create hierarchical acoustic classifiersfreeYGPL v3Rcreate random forest classifiers for pre-detected eventshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mms.12381
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BatClassifyhttps://bitbucket.org/chrisscott/batclassify/srcsegmentation and classification of ultrasonic soundsfreeYGPL v3UK bat speciesterrestrialdesktop GUIrun audio through pretrained bat classifiers
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BatDetecthttps://github.com/macaodha/batdetectbat detection in full-spectrum recordingsfreeYCC BY 4.0bat echolocation callsterrestrialPythonuse bat echolocation call detector for full-spectrum (i.e., not zero-crossing) recordingshttps://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005995
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BatExplorerhttps://www.batlogger.com/en/downloads/batexplorer/organize, annotate, detect, and classify bat call recordingsfree and paid versionsNcan process bat logging data from BATLOGGER brand recorders (and others)terrestrialYdesktop GUIsummarize dataorganize bat call projectslisten to time-stretched ultrasonic recordingsautomatic detectionpretrained classifier for UK & European bat species
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BatScopehttps://www.wsl.ch/en/services-produkte/batscope/manage, sort, view, and play databases of recordingsfreeNbatsterrestrialYdesktop GUIview and play audio filespretrained classifiers of multiple types (SVM, neural network, etc.) for Swiss bat speciesview GPS records of recordings
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Bioacoustic F0 estimationhttps://github.com/mim-team/bioacoustic_F0_estimationTool for estimating the fundamental frequency (F0) of non-human vocalizationsFreeYesGPL v3Command line, PythonCan export spectrograms overlaid with F0 predictions for users to visually check the resultsPredicts the time, fundamental frequency (F0), and F0 contour of vocalizationsDetects any voices signal, can filter by F0 or F0 contourThe neural network provided in this tool was trained on diverse signals (e.g., dolphins, rodents, birds, lions)https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2025.2500380
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bioacousticshttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bioacoustics/index.htmlsound filtering, automated detection, and extraction of acoustic featuresfreeYGPL v3Rread, display, and write audio files, including zero-crossing filesconvert MP3, WAV, and WAC filesfilter noisy filesextract acoustic features for further analysis
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Bioacoustics Cookbookhttps://github.com/kitzeslab/bioacoustics-cookbook/tree/mainexamples of common bioacoustic workflows in PythonfreeYMITPython, Jupyter Notebook GUIcalculate sunrise and sunset times at coordinate locations, review spectrogram gridsfilter audio files to include only specific date ranges, convert between UTM and lat/long coordinatesreview and annotate audio clips based on classifier scores and metadata in Jupyter Notebookuse pretrained audio feature extractortrain machine learning model, train shallow classifier, generate embeddings
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Bioacoustics in Pythonhttps://github.com/leabouffaut/bioacoustics_pythonexamples of common bioacoustic tasks in PythonfreeYMITPythonload and manipulate Raven selection tablesresample audio files and create spectrogramsevaluate model performance
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Bioacoustics Model Zoohttps://github.com/kitzeslab/bioacoustics-model-zoocollection of pretrained models for bioacoustic classification tasksfreeYPythonuse MixIT Bird sound source separation model to separate audio into channels potentially representing separate sourcescreate embeddings for audio data using 3 common bioacoustic classifiers (Perch, BirdNET, HawkEars)run 3 common bird sound classifiers (Perch, BirdNET, HawkEars)
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BioCPPNethttps://github.com/earthspecies/cocktail-party-problemconvolutional neural network-based architecture for bioacoustic source separationfreeYtrain classifier model and train separator model https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02790-2
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BioLingualhttps://github.com/david-rx/BioLingualsound classification and retrieval using natural text queriesfreeYApache v2Pythonuse text-to-audio searchcreate zero-shot bioacoustic classifier using textAlso includes AnimalSpeak datasethttps://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04978
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BirdNEThttps://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzerpretrained classifier for birdsfreeYMIT and CC-BY-NC-SA6000 bird species and some other speciesterrestrialcommand line, Windows GUIrun pretrained convolutional neural network classifier for 3000 bird species
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BirdVoxClassifyhttps://github.com/BirdVox/birdvoxclassifypretrained nocturnal flight call classifierfreeYMITNorth American bird nocturnal flight callsterrestrialcommand line, Pythonrun pretrained classifier for North American bird nocturnal flight callshttps://www.justinsalamon.com/uploads/4/3/9/4/4394963/cramer_taxonet_icassp_2020.pdf
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BirdVoxDetecthttps://github.com/BirdVox/birdvoxdetectmachine learning-based detection for nocturnal flight callsfreeYMITNorth American bird nocturnal flight callsterrestrialcommand line, Pythonrun machine learning-based system to detect continuous nocturnal flight callshttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214168&type=printable
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CARACALhttps://github.com/OpenWild/caracalacoustic localization software geared toward CARACAL recorderfreeYMITgeared toward multi-channel CARACAL recorderterrestrialPythonseparate sound from source for time-synchronized DOA arraysestimate direction of arrival to a single station and position estimates based on DOAs from multiple stationsdetect and match sounds across recordings for acoustic localizationpublished alongside CARACAL four-microphone hardware; see here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2019.1685408
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CASEhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/16/2020extract audio features, cluster, and analyze sound eventsfreeYCopyright with redistribution allowedMATLAB GUIextract features of animal soundsuse clustering and similarity detection algorithms for unsupervised classification
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categorizing_soundscapeshttps://github.com/lifewatch/categorizing_soundscapes/tree/maincollection of jupyter notebooks to categorize and characterize soundscapesfreeYmarinePython notebookscharacterize sound environments using unsupervised clustering on dimensionally reduced summary values of spectrogramsalso includes explainable random forest classifier to identify environmental covariates that predict sound environment
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CDSEhttps://github.com/sys-uos/CDSEClassifier-guided bird signal separationFreeYesGPL v3Command line, PythonView continuous time series for bird species' vocalizations instead of discrete classification windowsSound source separationNone (requires clasification results as input)
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Chirpityhttps://chirpity.mattkirkland.co.ukDesktop program for analyzing audio files with BirdNET and a nocturnal migration machine learning modelFree and paid versionsYesCC-BY-NC-SAEuropean nocturnal flight call (NFC) classification, BirdNET global bird classificationDesktop GUI, Browser GUICharts, graphical interface for viewing spectrograms, and data export to CSV, Raven, and Audacity label filesDatabase management for records and to compress/organise audio libraryGraphical interface for annotating spectrograms and reviewing, correcting, and labelling IDs Convert between filetypes, filter and process audio (gain, normalise, highpass, low shelf)CNN classifiers for BirdNET and European Nocturnal Flight Calls/nocmig
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crowsettahttps://github.com/vocalpy/crowsettapackage for working with and translating between annotation formatsfreeYBSDPythonport between annotation data types, analyze annotations with python scripts
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DAShttps://github.com/janclemenslab/dasmethod for automatically annotating song from raw audio recordings based on a deep neural networkfreeYApache-2.0geared toward segmenting laboratory animal vocalizationscaptive animalsPython, command line, desktop GUIcreate and edit annotations manually or automatically train neural network to segment audio based on annotated soundsunsupervized classification of songshttps://elifesciences.org/articles/68837
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DAS4Whaleshttps://github.com/DAS4Whales/DAS4Whales?tab=readme-ov-filePython package to analyze Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data for marine bioacousticsfreeYCC BY-NC-SA 4.0whalesmarinePythonread metadata and print information about spatial arrangement of distributed sensing array datafilter (e.g. bandpass, frequency-wavenumber domain)https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.901348/full
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DeepSqueakhttps://github.com/DrCoffey/DeepSqueakUsing Machine Vision to Accelerate Bioacoustics ResearchfreeYBSDoriginally intended for laboratory animal vocalization researchcaptive animalsMATLAB, GUIvisualize and annotate detectionsuse pretrained, retrainable, and trained-from-scratch detectors
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DetEdithttps://github.com/MarineBioAcousticsRC/DetEditvisualize and annotate detectionsfreeYCopyright (non-commercial permitted)stereotyped impulsive signals (e.g. odontocete echolocation, human impulsive noise, fish, crustaceans)marinedesktop GUIvisualize and annotate detectionshttps://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007598
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ecoSound-webhttps://ecosound-web.de/ecosound_web/web application to manage, visualize, annotate and analyze soundscape recordingscontact for access, recording storage may not be freeYGPL v3desktop GUIvisualize and annotate detectionsamplify, re-sample, split, filter, and compress audiocalculate acoustic indices to measure spectral, temporal and amplituidinal properties
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Ecosoundshttps://www.ecosounds.orgwebsite to manage, access, visualize, and analyze environmental acoustic data from repository free (including storage)Necoacoustic dataweb GUIcorrect timestamps, check for errors and provide error reports, annotate spectrogramsuse any analysis software
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fieldtoolshttps://github.com/nilomr/fieldtoolsplan deployments and copy/format large numbers of SD cards simultaneouslyfreeYMITcommand lineformat large number of SD cards simultaneouslycheck data about recorder deployment and generate .gpx files
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gibbonRhttps://github.com/DenaJGibbon/gibbonR-packagetrain neural networks, GMMs, and othersfreeYRextract audio featuresrun SVM and band-limited energy detectorcreate random forest and SVM classifiers using MFCCshttps://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02572
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GlassOFirehttp://www.oldbird.org/glassofire.htmWindows software for avian nocturnal flight call review and sortingfreeNavian nocturnal flight callsterrestrialdesktop GUIuse GUI for reviewing and organizing avian nocturnal flight call detections
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GoldWavehttps://www.goldwave.comgeneral-purpose audio softwarefree and paid versionsNdesktop GUIview and manipulate audio
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hardRainhttps://github.com/Cdevenish/hardRaindetect rain soundsfreeYGPL v3rainterrestrialRdetect rain in audio recordingshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1470160X19307873
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HARKBirdhttps://sites.google.com/view/alcore-suzuki/home/harkbirdacoustic localization softwarefreeYCC BY-SADOA arraysterrestrialPythonuse tool for editing and annotating results of sound source separationlocalize and separate sound sourcescreated compatible Raspberry Pi node for field recording
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HawkEarshttps://github.com/jhuus/HawkEarsclassification of 314 bird species of CanadafreeYMIT328 bird songsterrestrialPython interfacescan audio and generate labels for audio filesclassify sounds of 314 Canadian bird species and common confusion species (e.g. frog species) or create your own classifieralso available in Bioacoustics Model Zoo
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hybrid-vocal-classifierhttps://github.com/vocalpy/hybrid-vocal-classifierautomated labeling geared towards individual syllable identificationfreeYBSDvocal learning in captive animalscaptive animalsPythoncreate nearest neighbor classifiers for intraspecific individual syllable identification
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INSTINCThttps://github.com/DanWoodrich/INSTINCTbioacoustic pipelining softwarefreeYMITonly set up for WindowsPythonutilitze pipeline for bioacoustic software
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Ishmaelhttps://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/11056marine sound detection and localizationfreeNmarine wildlifemarinedesktop GUIrecord in real-time create annotationslocalize sounds and localize specifically with beamformingdetect energy sum, spectrogram correlation, train for repetitive calls, detect whistle and moan, ROCCA click and whistle ID
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Kaleidoscopehttps://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/products/kaleidoscope-prosoftware for detection via clustering with pretrained bat classifierspaid, 15-day free trialNwide range of animals, but pretrained classifiers only available for batsdesktop GUImanually identify and review clusters genererated by softwarerun pretrained bat classifier for bats of North America, U.K., Europe, Neotropics and South Africa
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KETOShttps://meridian.cs.dal.ca/2015/04/12/ketosacoustic data analysis with neural networksfreeYGPL v3underwater acousticsmarinePythoncreate neural network classifiers
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Koe Bioacoustics Softwarehttps://koe.io.ac.nzweb-based acoustic data management and detection platformfreeYGPL v3acoustic units, especially in birdsterrestrialweb GUIvisually review and annotate detectionsassess song sequence structureuse ordination plots to cluster and annotate groups of sound units
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kooguhttps://github.com/shyamblast/Koogu/tree/v0.6.5Python software wrapping around TensorFlow to create flexible deep learning modelsfreeYGPL v3Pythonpre-process and transform audio create flexible deep learning models via TensorFlow
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librosahttps://librosa.org/librosageneral-purpose sound analysis scripting toolkitfreeYISCPythonuse all-purpose audio scripting features including loading, spectrogram generationextract features like beat, tempoapply temporal segmentation
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Lusciniahttps://rflachlan.github.io/Lusciniabioacoustic archiving, measurement, and analysisfreeYdesktop GUImanage database and archive records measure acoustic signals as contours with dynamic time warping algorithm
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MANTAhttps://bitbucket.org/CLO-BRP/manta-wiki/wiki/Homeenables comparison between soundscapes from disparate datasets and identification of ambient ocean sound trendsfreeYGPL v3geared towards marine bioacousticsmarineGUI, MATLAB, executablemeasure processing metrics such as SPL percentiles, frequency bandwidth, etc. as recommended by three international workshops focused on ocean soundscape and long-term trend data
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Mice-USVs-segmentation-and-classificationhttps://github.com/DiogoMPessoa/Mice-USVs-segmentation-and-classificationMATLAB interface to segment and classify mice ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs)freeYmouse ultrasonic vocalizationscaptive animalsMATLABautomatically segment USV's based on spectral entroyuse classifier with hand-selected features (e.g. time, frequency, contour), unlike deep learning where features are determined automaticallyhttps://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/152/1/266/2838328/Automatic-segmentation-and-classification-of-mice
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monitoRhttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/monitoR/index.htmlautomated detection via template matchingfreeYGPL v2Ruse template matching for detectionshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmcs0UgSs8OG2cOcD8v7f2ckx8q9-UWB/view
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MUPEThttps://github.com/mvansegbroeck/mupetMatlab-based tool to analyze the ultrasonic calls emitted by micefreeYApache License 2.0mouse ultrasonic vocalizationscaptive animalsGUI; Matlabutilize tools for grouping recordings, e.g. by individualmeasure acoustic features such as power spectrum, syllable ratehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627317302982
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NARW_detection_toolhttps://git-dev.cs.dal.ca/meridian/NARW_detection_toolcommand-line interface tool to streamline development of acoustic deep learning models for North Atlantic right whale (NARW)freeYGPL v3North Atlanic right whalemarinecommand line interface create training and test datasets from raw acoustic datatrain deep learning model to detect NARW vocalizationshttps://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/mpo-dfo/Fs97-6-3345-eng.pdf
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NightHawkhttps://github.com/bmvandoren/Nighthawk/machine learning tool for classifying avian nocturnal flight callsfreeYCC BY-NC v4.0North American avian flight callsterrestrialcommand line interface or use with Vesper GUIclassify bird nocturnal flight callshttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.22.541336v1
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Ocenaudiohttps://www.ocenaudio.comgeneral-purpose audio editing softwarefreeNGUIview waveform and spectrogramadjust sound amplitude, apply effects
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ohunhttps://marce10.github.io/software/ohun/automated detection of acoustic signals with tools for diagnosing detector effectivenessfreeYGPL v2Ruse energy- and template-based detection; and utilize tools to evaluate detection performance
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OpenSoundscapehttp://opensoundscape.orgsoftware ecosystem for analyzing bioacoustics recordings, training, and applying convolutional neural network classifiersfreeYMITany sound; specific tool for classification of repeating sounds (e.g. trills)Pythonprocess Raven sound software annotation filesmanipulate audio, e.g. bandpass and sound augmentation for convolutional neural network traininglocalize from synchronized recording arraysuse signal processing for sounds with repeating structure (e.g. trills)create a wide variety of deep learning networks for classification of animal sounds; parallelize classification over CPUs or GPUshttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.14196
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PAMguardhttps://www.pamguard.orggraphical interface for creating acoustic pipelines for sound analysis, classification, and detection. Has a large userbase that creates and shares pluginsfreeYGPL v3marine and cetacean; specific tools for some taxamarinedesktop GUIvisualize spectrogramsorganize sensor locationsuse a wide variety of sound processing applications, e.g., amplification, noise reduction, spectrogram creationmeasure acoustic parameters with a wide variety of plugins, e.g. envelope tracing, LTSAlocalize sounds using a wide variety of methods, e.g., direction of arrival (bearing), multipath 3D localization, Ishmaeldetect a wide variety of marine sounds, e.g., clicks, whistles, species-specific soundsclassify sounds with a wide variety of plugins, e.g. pretrained whistle classifiers, template matching, deep learningvery long-lived and continuously maintained modular software; for more info on available plugins see here: https://www.pamguard.org/coremodules.html
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PAMpalhttps://github.com/TaikiSan21/PAMpalcompute acoustic features of PAMguard detectionsfreeYGPL v3marine wildlifemarineRcompute acoustic features of PAMguard detectionsFormerly known as PAMr
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Parselmouthhttps://github.com/YannickJadoul/ParselmouthPython library for interacting with Praat annotation and acoustic parameter measurement functionalityfreeYGPL v3Pythonvisualize spectrogramsintegrate Praat annotation workflows into Pythonapply wide array of Praat acoustic parameter measurement tools using Pythonhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0095447017301389?via%3Dihub
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Praathttps://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praatannotation and sound feature analysis; has been ported directly into Python (see Parselmouth)freeYGPL v3individual sound analysis; originally intended for human phoneticsdesktop GUIannotate sounds from individual animals, e.g. for studies of vocal repertoire and learningutilize wide variety of speech analysis tools, e.g. fundamental frequency analysis; spectral, pitch, formant, intensity analysishttps://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/paul/papers/speakUnspeakPraat_glot2001.pdf
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prinia-projecthttps://github.com/shivChitinous/prinia-projectbird song note classification and analysisfreeYcc0bird songsterrestrialPython + MATLABanalyze complexity and repetition rate for bird songscreate PCA, linear discriminant, and hierarchical clustering classifiers to classify song noteshttps://academic.oup.com/beheco/article-abstract/31/2/559/5702188?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
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Pykantohttps://github.com/nilomr/pykantoPython library and GUI for exploring and labeling audio for research on bird song unitsfreeYMITbirdsprimarily terrestrialPython and GUIvisualize spectrogramsorganize datasetsautomatically segment soundextract common acoustic features, e.g. bandwidth, min/max frequencyuse automated segmentationtrain convolutional neural network classifierhttps://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008228
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PyPAMhttps://github.com/lifewatch/pypam?tab=readme-ov-filePython package to analyze underwater soundfreeYGPL v3marine wildlifemarinePythonprocess audio from multiple deployments and extract features that can be used for ML algorithmscalculate acoustic indicescompute frequency domain analysispackage under active development, newer version removed detectors
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PyPorCChttps://github.com/lifewatch/pyporccPython package that detects and classifies clicks from Harbor Porpoises'freeYMITHarbor PorpoisesmarinePythondetect clicks in continuous files as an adaptation of the PAMGuard click detectorclassify porpoise clicks as high quality, low quality or high-frequency noisehttps://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/145/6/3427/939421/Porpoise-click-classifier-PorCC-A-high-accuracy?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Raven Litehttps://ravensoundsoftware.com/software/raven-litegeneral bioacoustic listening and annotationfreeNdesktop GUIvisualizw and play spectrogramsannotate sounds (only one notes column available in free version)measure power and other basic acoustic featuresvery long-lived, continuously maintained software; .selections.txt annotation format able to be ported into many applications
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Raven Prohttps://ravensoundsoftware.com/software/raven-progeneral bioacoustic listening and annotationpaid; reduced-price optionsNdesktop GUIvisualizw and play spectrogramsannotate sounds measure power and other basic acoustic featuresuse template-matching, band-limited energy detector
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Reaperhttps://www.reaper.fmspectrogram visualizationfree and paid versionsNdesktop GUIspectrogram visualization; enables Python and C/C++ coding withinextract features like beat, tempo
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scikit-maadhttps://github.com/scikit-maad/scikit-maadgeneral-purpose machine learning packagefreeYBSDPythoncompute acoustic indicescompute acoustic features; estimate SPLsegment audio based on user-provided frequency and length parametershttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1470160X1830181X?via%3Dihub
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scipy.signalhttps://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/signal.htmlgeneral signal processing algorithmsfreeYBSDPythongenerate spectrogramsestimate time delays using spectrogram cross-correlation (scipy.signal.correlate)use to implement template-matching using spectrogram cross-correlationSubpackages cover extensive scientific computing domains
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SDEerhttp://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3792780direction-of-arrival estimationfreeYCC-BYMATLABmanually annotate for acoustic localizationlocalize using recording synchronization and DOA estimationuse several detection algorithms
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seewavehttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/seewave/index.htmlgeneral acoustics toolboxfreeYGPL v3Rdisplay spectrogramscompute signal envelopescompute cross-correlation
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SongExplorerhttps://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/SongExplorerdeep learning for segmenting acoustic signalsfreeYBSD 3-Clause and Apache License 2.0browser GUI, Pythonutilize workflow for discovering soundsannotate audio in graphical interfacetrain deep learning algorithm to segment animal soundshttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.26.437280v1
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SonicVisualizerhttps://www.sonicvisualiser.orgspectrogram visualizationfreeYGPL v2desktop GUIvisualize spectrogramsannotate audio in graphical interfacehttps://www.sonicvisualiser.org/sv2010.pdf
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SonoBathttps://sonobat.comclassification of bat callspaidNbatsterrestrialdesktop GUIbatch edit metadata notesuse "compressed view" of detectionsrun pretrained classifier for North American bats using extracted acoustic features
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Sound Finderhttps://github.com/rhine3/pysoundfinder?tab=readme-ov-fileposition estimationfreeYCC-BY-NC-SAR, Excelestimate position using GPS algorithm that takes pre-calculated TDOAs as inputshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2013.827588
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Soundatahttps://soundata.readthedocs.io/en/latestload and work with audio datafreeYBSDPythonload and work with audio datasets in a standardized waysupport annotations with confidence levels
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Soundbayhttps://github.com/deep-voice/soundbayPython framework for building and applying deep learning models for bioacousticsFreeYesAGPL-3.0implemented for marine mammals, should work for any signalimplemented for marine mammals, should work for any signalPythonScripts and classes for data processing and loading for deep learning modelsDeep learning-based detectionDeep learning-based classification
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soundClasshttps://github.com/bmsasilva/soundClassaudio annotation and training and prediction with neural network classifiers in RfreeYGPL v3Rcreate SQL database of recordingsannoate files in GUItrain and predict with CNNsthe CNN architecture used is small, in order to make training computationally feasible in Rhttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13964?af=R
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soundecologyhttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/soundecology/vignettes/intro.htmlcalculate soundscape-wide acoustic indicesfreeYGPL v3Rcalculate acoustic indices
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Soundgen
http://cogsci.se/soundgen.html
open-source toolbox for voice synthesis, manipulation, and analysisfreeYGPL v3Rvisualize spectrogramsmanipulate and synthesize soundhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30054898/
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soundscape_IRhttps://github.com/meil-brcas-org/soundscape_IRpython-based toolbox of soundscape information retrievalfreeYMITPythonvisualization of soundscape dynamicstrain model for audio source separationhttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13960
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SoundScapeExplorerhttps://sound-scape-explorer.github.io/interface for sampling recordings and extracting soundscape/CNN features from themfreeYMITWeb GUIvisualize audio and results from soundscape analysis, including dimensional reduction of neural network outputsextract audio at desired sampling intervalextract several acoustic features and neural network embeddings
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SoundScopehttps://github.com/xaviermouy/SoundScopevisualization and manual verification of detections from automated detectorsfreeYBSD 3-Clausewhale and fishgeared toward marine environmentsGUI through Pythonvisualize detections from sound detectorsverify or annotate automatic detections using a GUI
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SoundSorthttps://github.com/macster110/aipamvisualize, cluster, and annotate annotationsfreeYGPL v3desktop GUIvisualize and annotate recordings, then export these annotationscluster similar pre-detected clips"Note that SoundSort is on ice untill a project requires it's use again - please get in contact if you would like any more info"
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Sox-o-matichttps://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/sox-o-maticfacilitates file management by simplifying the process of compressing, converting, and renaming audio filesfreeNCopyright (permissive use)desktop GUIrename audio filesconvert between filetypes, compress audio