Non-Human Language Processing

NLP for non-human language, such as bird songs or animal calls.

• Bird songs
  • Tsai & Xue 2014 - On the Use of Speech Recognition Techniques to Identify Bird Species
  • Morfi et al 2019 - NIPS4Bplus: a richly annotated birdsong audio dataset
  • Morfi 2019 - Automatic detection and classification of bird sounds in low-resource wildlife audio datasets PhD thesis
  • Kahl et al 2021 - BirdNET: A deep learning solution for avian diversity monitoring
  • TweetyNet: 2022- Automated annotation of birdsong with a neural network that segments spectrograms
  • See also references in this class project report

• LDC - Asian Elephant Vocalizations
• LDC - Field Recordings of Vervet Monkey Calls
• Bird songs (search “bird song dataset” on Google)
  • Cornell Birdcall Identification
  • British Birdsong Dataset
  • Bird Audio Detection
  • Xeno-canto - Bird sounds from around the world
  • Bird Audio Detection challenge
  • NIPS4Bplus paper
  • BirdSong dataset: paperswithcode

• Bird recognition - review of useful resources
• Earth Species Project Nonprofit dedicated to decoding non-human language