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discussion / Acoustics  / 19 February 2025

Has anyone tried Whombat?

Adrien Pajot

Adrien Pajot

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Hi! I am Adrien, a dedicated French ornithologist and engineer committed to biodiversity conservation. I joined the WILDLABS team as a project manager in October 2023!
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While reading my emails I came across this paper: 

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.14468?campaign=woletoc

 In the context of a personal project (NBM) I might be interested in using it. Has anyone tried it?



Rob Appleby
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22 February 2025 3:29am

A great find Adrien! I hadn't heard of this, and it looks like it could save a lot of time and effort!

Cheers,

Rob

Lia Gilmour
@lvgliarose  | she/her
Bat Conservation Trust
Research Manager at Bat Conservation Trust

24 February 2025 2:37pm

We have been using it in a project to label soundscape data at BCT to develop a soundscape algorithm for monitoring ecosystem health. We are also hoping to incorporate it into a platform for labelling bat call data and more, as part of our EchoHub project. @mbsantiago is the creator, as part of his PhD, so he may be able to demonstrate at some point for the community? Would be great to get it out there for other projects to use too! 

Jocelyn Stalker
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Herpetologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
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25 February 2025 3:57pm

I just started using this software a few days ago and so far it has captured and kept my attention more than other programs such as Raven or Kaleidoscope. I have only been using it to annotate, but I'm really excited about its ability to test machine learning models. I'm currently developing frog call recognizers using BirdNet. I don't yet know of anyone else using a Whombat + BirdNet workflow (and for neither bats nor birds, nonetheless!) but I'd encourage more biologists to try it out.