Platform
Explore, analyse and validate
Explore New Zealand's public sound data, run the national model and help validate it, free. Subscribe when you need private projects, custom models or processing at scale.
Free
Explore public sound data and the national model.
- ✓The Sound Map, with public recordings and species insights
- ✓The national model: Perch v2 with a New Zealand species filter, open source to download
- ✓Citizen science validation
- ✓A trial upload of up to 5 hours of your own audio, to see how processing works
- ○The Ecocommons desktop app, free on your own computer · coming soon
Pro
Calibrated, uncertainty-aware species detection.
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Private projects, data management and team members
- ✓500 audio-hours processed per month and includes 100 GB of storage
- ✓Calibrated detections, using validation from public data, with built-in label-efficient sampling for your own validation
- ✓Custom models trained with active learning
- ✓Bulk downloads
- ○Other data types, such as camera traps · coming soon
Additional processing $0.08 per audio-hour. Additional storage $0.10 per GB per month.
Your recordings belong to you. Private data is only used to improve the national model if you opt in, and data held by iwi and hapū is only shared on terms agreed with them.
Monitoring projects
Need answers to ecological questions? A project turns your detections into occupancy or density: a study designed to answer your question, with the device set-up and models to match, and independent expert validation so the results stand up to outside scrutiny.