AI helps identify deep-sea sounds; Listen

Founded in 2015 with a plan to conduct the first sound survey of the world's oceans, the IQOE uses underwater microphones known as hydrophones.

The biggest novelty, however, is in the way of analyzing the sounds obtained: instead of spending months deciphering them using human ears – arguing about which sound was a shrimp clicking and which was a fish grunting – they connected the sounds to an algorithm that correctly identified the species within minutes.

Among the 21 recorded species, the program correctly identified the sounds of 4 of them, with 89,4% accuracy in these cases: drum, snoring fish, snapping shrimp and planktonophage. 👂Click on the name of each species to hear its sounds recorded at the bottom of the sea, made available by IQOE.

 🔊 Listen to more sounds captured from other species in the sound library (I.e.

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