The current web version is release.
Uses the audioBlast API to identify strings that match taxa within the search query.
Named after the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
Makes English terms in search queries tidy.
Named after Mr Carson from Downton Abbey.
Processes terms relating to acoustic traits.
Named after the book by Konrad Lorenz.
Processes terms relating to taxonomic names.
Processes any emoji in search terms.
Named after the Rosetta Stone.
Processes information relating to annotations.
Finds terms from the Bioacoustics & Ecoacoustics Glossary in search queries and shows their definitions.
Named after Julius Pollux, author of the Onomasticon.
Reads a common name in the query and finds the taxon it belongs to, so audioBlast can be searched in the words people actually use and not only in binomials.
Named after John Ray, whose catalogues set the common names of plants and animals beside their scientific ones.
Shows the recordings of a taxon.
Named after Chris Watson, a sound recordist who has worked on many David Attenborough nature documentaries.
Shows what the sources say in prose about a taxon: how it behaves, where and when it calls, what it looks like and how it is told apart.
Named after Jean-Henri Fabre, who described what insects do rather than only what they are.
Shows the literature on a taxon, and what each reference holds for it.
Named after Charles Davies Sherborn, whose Index Animalium recorded which publication had treated which animal name.
Initial development of audioBlast was supported by the Leverhulme Trust funded Automated Acoustic Observatories project at the University of York.
The project is currently hosted by the Natural History Museum, London.