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No, it doesn't. It uses RPi to record and upload singing.

> A microphone array is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi which is programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird songs, and show audio curves. The Pi then sends that data to BirdNET Sound ID at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for analysis.

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The second link in the article goes to https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/classify-birds-acoustically... which says "It uses a USB sound card to pick up bird sounds, and classifies them locally using a pre-trained machine learning model."

But the next link https://sarsef.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Finnegans-Proj... says "The computer is programmed to listen to ambient sounds, record bird songs, show audio curves, and send all data to BirdNET at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for analysis in order to determine what kind of bird is present in a specific location".

birdnet runs on device https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi?tab=readme-ov-file

I recently upgraded mine from a Pi 3 to a 4. Its pretty impressive, even with some pretty rubbish hardware. A fluffy wind muffler for the mic is a good idea and nowhere near as exciting as they ought to be, with a name like that!

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