ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics
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Passive acoustic monitoring of soundscapes and biodiversity produces vast amounts of audio recordings, but the management and analyses of these raw data present technical challenges. A multitude of software solutions exist, but none can fulfil all purposes required for the management, processing, navigation, and analysis of acoustic data. The field of ecoacoustics needs a software tool that is free, evolving, and accessible. We take a step in that direction and present ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics designed and built by ecologists and software engineers. ecoSound-web can be used for storing, re-sampling, organising, analysing, and sharing soundscape recording or metadata projects. Specifically, it allows manual annotation of soniferous animals and soundscape components, automatic annotation with deep-learning models for all birds and for UK bat species, peer-reviewing annotations, analysing audio in time and frequency dimensions, computing alpha acoustic indices, and providing reference sound libraries for different taxa. We present ecoSound-web’s structure and features, and describe its operation for typical use cases such as sampling bird and bat communities, using a primate call library, and the analysis of soundscape components and acoustic indices. ecoSound-web is available from: https://github.com/ecomontec/ecoSound-web
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Cloud-based platforms such as EcoSounds-web and ARBIMON, together with annotation-focused tools like Whombat, enable collaborative annotation, archiving, and querying of large acoustic datasets.
“Cloud-based platforms such as EcoSounds-web and ARBIMON, together with annotation-focused tools like Whombat, enable collaborative annotation, archiving, and querying of large acoustic datasets”
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- Authors
- Darras, K. F. A., Pérez, N., Dilong, L., Hanf-Dressler, T., Markolf, M., Wanger, T. C., & Cord, A. F.
- Affiliations
- Westlake University (CN)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- German Primate Center (DE)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Darras, Kevin F.A.
- Pérez, Noemí
- Dilong, Liu
- Markolf, Matthias
- Wanger, Thomas C
- Cord, Anna F.
- Venue
- F1000Research
- Publisher
- F1000 Research Ltd
- Published
- 2024-11-08
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 1224
- ISSN
- 2046-1402 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7682500
- OpenAlex
- W4404190558
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 4
- FWCI
- 4.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- F1000Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB990/2, SFB990/1)
- Westlake University
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Music and Audio Processing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Keywords
- ecoacoustics, passive acoustic monitoring, soundscape analysis, open source software, automatic annotation, bat species identification, biodiversity monitoring, audio metadata
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