Bioacoustics Python Packages

birdnet

A Python library for identifying bird species by their sounds.

pytorchwildlife

Microsoft AI for Good Lab — Biodiversity research hub. Open-source AI models, edge devices, and tools for biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Your source for MegaDetector, SPARROW, PytorchWildlife, Bioacoustics, and more.

scikit-maad

Open-source and modular toolbox for quantitative soundscape analysis in Python

crowsetta

A tool to work with any format for annotating animal sounds

soundata

Python library for downloading, loading & working with sound datasets

birdnet-analyzer

BirdNET analyzer for scientific audio data processing.

vocalpy

A core package for acoustic communication research in Python

whombat

Audio Annotation Tool for ML development

vak

A neural network framework for researchers studying acoustic communication

avex

Animal Vocalization Encoder Library

hawkears

Scan audio recordings and identify birds, amphibians and other classes.

signavis

Interactive waveform + spectrogram audio player for analysis, annotation, and embeddable previews (Web, Streamlit, Gradio)

onc-hydrophone-data

Python tools for downloading Ocean Networks Canada hydrophone audio and spectral products, checking deployments, and generating custom edge-safe spectrograms.

bambird

Unsupervised classification to improve the quality of a bird song recording dataset. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101952

artwarp-py

A high-performance Python implementation of ARTwarp for automated categorization of tonal animal sounds.

eris-ketos

Geometric analysis of cetacean communication: Poincaré embeddings, TDA, SPD manifolds, and adversarial decoder robustness

multiband-audio

Adaptive Multi-Band Encoding for Full-Spectrum Bioacoustics

beamshapes

Directivity functions for various sound sources