Recording Nature By Sound

Researchers at the University of Puerto Rico have devised computer software that can sift through thousands of hours of nature recordings to catalog individual species.

New computer software can sift through thousands of hours of nature recordings to identify and map individual species. Mitch Aide, a researcher at the University of Puerto Rico, tells host Steve Curwood about how his team devised the systems and put them to work.

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