🔎 Curious how advanced audio monitoring works from a distance? Discover how laser microphone systems can capture sound without entering a room — using vibration detection technology that measures tiny movements on reflective surfaces.

Learn how this innovative technology works, where it’s used, and what professionals should know.

👉 Read more: https://endoacustica.mystrikingly.com/blog/how-laser-microphones-work

#LaserMicrophone #AudioMonitoring #Surveillance #endoacustica

My Port Hills audio recorders seem to have detected a ruru (morepork) in Kennedy's Bush. This morning I listened to the sections of recording that BirdNet had identified with moderate certainty as being riflemen (no, these were baby korimako), pīpipi (no, these were a combination of riroriro and piwakawaka singing at once), and ruru. Surprisingly, the ruru seem to be ruru, just five detections in total over a 10 day stretch from Kennedy's Bush.

I've just posted them on #iNaturalist, where they're the first ruru from the Port Hills. I recently heard that someone had heard a ruru at Living Springs, and eBird has one record, without a recording, from Hackthorne Road from 2023. I'm not aware of any ruru in Kennedys Bush or elsewhere in the Port Hills.

It's promising, if true. Oddly, my owl was singing in the day time. Perhaps it's a young bird travelling.

Have a listen and please disagree if you know of another local bird that would make similar calls.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations?subview=table&verifiable=any&field:Same%20specimen%20over%20time=332064177

#birds #owls #nz #Ninox #ruru #moreport #Christchurch #BirdNet #AudioMoth #EcologicalMonitoring #AudioMonitoring

Observations

iNaturalist NZ is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

iNaturalist NZ

@limebar Setting it up in #openbsd #audio #audioMonitoring is like this. https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/multimedia/#recording-a-monitor-mix-of-all-audio-playback

After which #ffmpeg #sndio
ffmpeg -f sndio -i snd/0.mon out.ogg

(If I am playing my mic into system sound, I guess I could add -f sndio -i snd/1 to tell ffmpeg to mix my mic)

Multimedia

Handbook for the OpenBSD operating system

Here’s a story on #RNZ of a project working to increase the numbers of mohua, the NZ yellowhead, in part of southern Aotearoa. Mohua are an endemic NZ bird (in an endemic bird family), once abundant through the South Island, but now very rare, and endangered. My wife Laura is working with a team on a high tech way of monitoring mohua populations, and individuals, with a network of audio recorders.

#birds #conservation #nz #mohua#EcologicalMonitoring #AudioMonitoring

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018917082/our-changing-world-keeping-an-eye-on-the-makarora-mohua

Our Changing World – Keeping an eye on the Makarora mohua

Mohua yellowheads were once common in Aotearoa forests, but bush clearance and introduced predators mean they're now rare in the ngahere. Claire Concannon meets a team of scientists and conservationists keeping an eye on a remnant mohua population at Makarora.

RNZ

🔊🎧 Headphones or studio monitors?
Let's talk about the pros and cons of these two essential tools for music production.
Which do you prefer and why?

#audio #AudioMonitoring #mixing #mastering #music #monitors #producing #sound

Breaking news ! Take your old Rode SC6-L out of the closet: since the latest iOS update, it enables audio monitoring in the iPhone's native camera app with any TRRS microphone #MoJo #videomobile #audiomonitoring