Birdnet-go is a real-time sound analyzer that detects bird species. It can take in audio from microphones. I set mine up to stream audio from my security cameras that I already had installed. There’s even a Home Assistant App, if you’re using it.
I live in a more suburban/semi-urban environment, but was really surprised to so many different bird species.
That’s my specialty! My goal with my projects has always been to lower the barrier to entry while compromising as little as possible on things that matter. I remember everything Google and Apple built before they started dumbing it down and removing features. I remember how much effort went into onboarding users and making sure people could adopt things easily. It didn’t always work, but I’ve been very successful in making my entire de-google’d stack useful to my own family.
The hardest part is done, now I just need to make it replicable for others to spin up their own. If you’re interested, I’ve got a repo scaffolded but I haven’t published the actual stack installer yet: https://git.circuitforge.tech/Circuit-Forge/turaco/issues