garcianacho wrote:Sara: Want to know how I see your application in the future? (dream is cheap...).
Lincense the Shazam technology (as used in Music ID) and integrate in Pocket Birds, then the program recognizes (via microphone) the bird's song and shows the appropiate data....
Regards.
Nacho.
PD: FYI:
http://www.enciclopediadelasaves.es
That would be amazing if it could be made to work! I have noticed that my PPC microphone is pretty poor at recording. Especially at higher frequencies of the sort that small passerine birds sing at. It won't even record a firecrest! So we would need a device that allowed a quality plug-in microphone. But I will look into Shazam!
New Version V3.0 Release...I am just about to release Version 3 of Pocket Birds. It is very much improved with detailed images of birds in all plumages and times of year (instead of the little photographs that served no real purpose). I have added extra features and cleaned up the interface. The images and maps are also larger in size.
This will be the QVGA (VGA version maybe a bit later on if I can solve a programming problem with sound). There is a VGA PC version just for the desktop, too.
I have added a 'compare birds' feature among the extra features, and an SD Card detection feature to help with non-English operating systems. Thanks to many of you who have taken the time to create different language files we now have a number of language packs.
I also added another 40 or 50 birds to the main index files - these are Europa birds that were missing in earlier versions.
Thanks much to all who have made this software so Europa friendly
Because it has more features I have produced a manual in acrobat reader format (.PDF) that is optimised to be read on the PPC.
I hope to upload it to this website by the weekend. (I am beta testing it to try to avoid post-release bugs.):)
Sarah
