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Wow, omg, earlier in his blog post he explains how people DO sort of use vowel sounds in a standardized way to describe bird sounds. It absolutely made sense to me.
Then in the comments, there is the discussion shown below about being able to Sound search using standardized vowel sounds and dipthongs to search tags or descriptions, patterns of, I am assuming. Yes, could work. As Nathan points out, this would be affected by the person's first language.
Yes! I was just previously thinking how difficult it is for english-mother-tongues / anglophones, to remember sequences of vowels. Well, I do anyway. Just like sequences of numbers. Like, it's hard to describe a location or name it, using only the lat long co-ordinates. And it is difficult to remember words with different patterns of consonants and vowels like many Japanese words that seem to be various combinations of consonant-vowel syllables all mixed up together. Like, was that ka ta no be, or ka to na be or whatever, don't know if those are real japanese words, forgive me, japanese speakers. This is meant just as an example.
But, perhaps any search method could be made using a sort of multiple choice building of the sound using the above standarized sounds to create a pattern to use in the search? I dunno how Siri works - voice recognition. I heard there is an app for recording and searching bird songs, but this would be different, and maybe also a learning experience and way to standardize a bit.
So, the searcher would choose various sounds provided, string them together, and place them temporally. The sounds provided would be chosen by selecting from playable sounds. You know what
I mean. Hehe.
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