the library

Tree of Life

The Tree of Life area of the library is a reference for the various sound production and reception mechanisms of a wide range of species.

Sound Enhancement Toolkit for MATLAB

The toolkit implements a graphical user interface (GUI) for performing various signal analysis tasks including spectrogram generation, formant tracking, power spectral density plots and others. There are also a number of enhancement algorithms included. Unzip the package to a directory and add it to your MATLAB path. Help can be found by typing 'help SoundEnhance' at the MATLAB command prompt.

Download Code (zip 111kB)
Download Technical Program Description (pdf 11kB)
Screenshots (link)

Recognition Toolkit for MATLAB

The REU team built a program to be used within MATLAB to help scientists, reasearchers, etc. with sound recognition. The program has a graphical user interface to help the user with all the steps involved.

The system has the ability to set up all of the user's sound files into categories so the sound files do not have to be arranged in a specific fashion. The program will also convert the *.wma sound files into *.mfc so the HTK tools can build the definition files.

In addition, the program can also take a file the user doesn't recognize, and "guess", based on the definitions created from older data.

Download Toolkit(exe 1.97Mb)
Screenshots (link)

XBAT Filters

The XBAT filters are an addon for the XBAT project. The filters are algorithms that graduate researchers have been developing. The filters include Ephraim Mahlahl, Spectral Subtraction, Perceptual Wavelet Decomposition, and others.

Download Filters(zip 230Kb)

News Articles

"Decoding Calls of the Wild", by Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feature article in Series "Groundbreaking Thinkers in Wisconsin" pdf 48kB)

"Animal Speech Project Aims to Decode Critter Communication", by Maryann Mott, National Geographic Online, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060926-dolittle-project.html , September 2006.
"Parsing the Puffin's Patois", by Maryann Mott, Wired News Online, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/lifescience/0,71439-0.html?tw=wn_index_19 , July 2006 .
"What Jumbo tells Dumbo", by Alex Antunes, Computing in Science and Engineering , published by the IEEE Computer Society, (pdf 150kB)
Article about Dr. Johnson in Marquette Engineering Winter 2001 (pdf 48kB)
Article on the Dr. Dolittle Project in the Marquette Alumni Magazine Fall 2003 (pdf 1,099kB)
Pictures from Dr. Dolittle Workshop in Orlando, FL Fall 2004 (link)
Fauna Communications in PBS Nature program "Can Animals Predict Disaster?" (main site - resources)

Publications

Project Summary (pdf 68kB)
NSF ITR Meeting Poster, June 2004 (pdf 85kB)

Bioacoustics Research Labs

Marquette University - Speech and Signal Processing Lab
Wildlife Tracking Center at Disney's Animal Kingdom^TM
University of Connecticut - Department of Animal Science
University of Connecticut - National Undersea Research Center
FAUNA Research Communications Institute
Adam Mickiewicz University - Department of Behavioural Ecology
Dolphin Communication Project at Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration

Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell Lab or Ornithology
University of California - Davis
Boys Town National Research Hospital - Clinical and Behavioral Studies of Human Communication

Bioacoustic Signal Analysis Programs

Canary (for Mac OS 9.2 and older) - http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/software/canary-information
Raven (for Mac OS X and Windows) - http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/raven/raven.html

Polynesia - http://www.animalvoice.com/polynesia.htm

Signal - http://www.engdes.com/

MobySoft - http://cetus.pmel.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/MobySoft.pl

Ishmael (part of MobySoft library) - http://cetus.pmel.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/getinfo.pl?dirname=ishmael

CIBRA (Italy) - http://www-1.unipv.it/webcib/res_software_uk.html

Syrinx - http://syrinxpc.com/

UltraVox - http://www.noldus.com/products/index.html?ultravox/index

SpectraXXX - http://www.cetaceanresearch.com/signal-analysis/analysis-software.html

XBAT - http://xbat.org/home.html