A large-scale crowd-sourced annotated acoustic dataset of Indian fauna

Vijay Ramesh Sameer Singh Paul Pop P. Choksi Prabhjeet Singh Sarika Khanwilkar Sonal Teotia Pralhad Burli K. Devarajan A. Ashwin Amisha A Nakhwa M. A. Shakur Rohan Baishya N. Bhagwat Siddharth Biniwale Chiranjib Bora C. S. Swathi Nibedita Chakraborty Senan D’Souza Elrika D’Souza Ram Dayal Vaishnav Kadambari Deshpande Aavika Dhanda G. Abhishaek Aarini Ghosh Rajkamal Goswami K. N. Abhinav K. P. Nidhichand B. Rajaraman K. V. Gururaja Vandana Kannan Vijay Karthick Mayuri Kotian Harsha Kumar Punnen Kurian Malavika Madhavan Komaljit Meena Ayesha Mohammad Maslehuddin Pravar Mourya Madhushri Mudke R. J. Pradeeshwar R. Jha Kavya Ramesh S. S. Sailas Taksh Sangwan Siddharth Mahesh Ryan Satish Anusha Shankar Cimila Sibichen Ramit Singal Gaurav Singh Navneet Singh I. Bhalla Navaneeth Sini George Meghana Srivathsa Pavithra Sundar Syeda Tabassum Tasfia Alayna Trejo Yana V Rasheva

Jul 2026 · bioRxiv · 0 citations · 11 references

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This paper relies on a novel participatory approach, enlisting researchers, conservation practitioners, and nature enthusiasts to create a unique crowd-sourced, open-access dataset of acoustic annotations across taxonomic groups for biodiversity in India.

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