Hi everyone,

There have been a lot of updates in the recent months for bacpipe:

1. The bacpipe paper was published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution,

2. version 1.3.5 was released supporting more models and features (among them Birdnet_v3) and

3. a live demo of bacpipe is now hosted permanently at bacpipe.siriusly.me along with detailed descriptions of each of the sections in the graphical user interface.

Here are some of the more detailed updates as bullet points:

• "Classification" was renamed to "probing" and made usable through the API

• A benchmarking function was added to easily compare models on the same data

• Jupyter Notebook tutorials and docstrings were added

• Ground truth arrays are now built from annotations and saved as .csv files

• ONNX version of Perch v2 was added

• 3D Plotly visualization support

• Better support for Macs (MPS)

Going forward I will update if new models or features are added.

Current plans include:

• Create a standalone program for Windows and Apple

• Include the BirdNET geomodel to get a species list that can be used for predictions of any model

• Enable slowing down and speeding up audio so that any feature extractor can be used for infra- or ultrasonic data

• Improve documentation to make bacpipe more accessible

(if you feel like you would be able to contribute to any these, then feel free to reach out!)

Thank you to all that have contributed so far!

Stay tuned