Software Comparison
The following is an (incomplete) list of Ecoacoustics analysis software that we know of.
| Name | Paid? | Open? | Location | Interface | Performance | Acoustic Indices | User Guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaleidoscope Pro 5 | Local | GUI | |||||
| Raven Pro | Local | GUI | Quantitative assessment of detector performance | ||||
| AviaNZ | Local | GUI | Can test recogniser with performance metrics calculations. | ||||
| RFCx Arbimon | Cloud | GUI | Yes - webpage guides available on website. | ||||
| Ecosounds | Cloud | GUI | Summary and spectral indices | Mostly no - some workshops / tutorials on website | |||
| QUT Ecoacoustics Analysis Programs | Local | Command line | Summary and spectral indices | Yes - some workshops / tutorials on website | |||
| BioSounds | ? | Local (with internet connection) | GUI | N/A | |||
| BioAcoustica | Cloud | GUI | N/A | Yes - help pages / guides available on BioAcoustica website. | |||
| Bugg | Cloud | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | ||
| Seewave | Library | API (R Library) | N/A | Yes - reference manual & Vignette | |||
| MonitoR | Library | API (R Library) | (1) Can compare results from template detection to manually annotated spectrogram (2) Can compare performance of multiple templates and evaluate similarity between templates | Yes - reference manual & Vignette |