The Merlin App

A friend of mine shared this free app with me and I found it pretty interesting. Picks up turkey's, owls, crows, bird of prey, etc. It could really be beneficial for those of us with diminishing hearing.


Merlin Sound ID was developed in-house at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Sound ID works completely offline, so you can identify birds you hear no matter where you are.

Led by Dr. Grant Van Horn with assistance from Dr. Benjamin Hoffman, Merlin Sound ID uses thousands recordings archived in the Macaulay Library to learn how to recognize the vocalizations of different bird species. Sound ID is trained on audio recordings that are first converted to visual representations (spectrograms), then analyzed using computer vision tools. The Merlin Sound ID project relies heavily on regional experts that know all the bird vocalizations in their region.

IOS:
apps.apple.com/us/app/merlin-bird-id-by-cornell-lab/id773457673

Android:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.labs.merlinbirdid.app