Merlin's AI-Powered 'Sound ID' Feature for Bird Identification
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nkurz
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Summary
The article discusses the introduction of an AI-powered 'Sound ID' feature by Merlin for identifying birds by their sounds, highlighting its accuracy and quality achieved through hard work rather than technical advancements.
Key quotes
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They built that quality through good old-fashioned sweat equity.
Merlin is not the first to use deep convolutional neural networks to identify birds by their sounds.
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