I spent a couple months last year trying to figure out how to commercialize this tech and never really landed on anything that felt venture scale. There’s lots of cool stuff happening in the research space though, and I remain convinced that it is only because of our natural bias towards vision (it being our most conscious/directed sense) that this technology is slightly behind CV.

If anyone ever wants to start a machine listening company that isn’t focused on speech or music come find me and I’ll share all of my notes/competitive research/etc.

Some device that I can put in my garden and will send status reports on bird kinds and the state of the plants (the article mentions tomato plants giving something audible if dehydrated) would be really awesome. Especially in relation to weather, time of day, day of the year, etc.

Some other options for low-cost backyard sound/biodiversity monitoring are:

https://www.openacousticdevices.info/ https://carbonrewild.com/