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Earth Species Project (ESP)
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The new frontier of interspecies understanding.
We decode animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth.

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October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
4/ We hope these findings provide a clear and practical roadmap for others to build on. Generalizable bioacoustic encoders will help researchers tackle deeper, more nuanced questions in #AnimalCommunication – going beyond just species classification and detection.
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
3/ 🐘🗣️ Data diversity is crucial: Training on a mix of bioacoustic + general audio outperformed using only bioacoustic data alone.

This is important to boost performance, but also helps address data scarcity.
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
2/ We provide a practical 2-stage training recipe that performed strongest to help build more robust encoders designed for real-world ethology tasks:
1️⃣ Self-supervised pre-training
2️⃣ Supervised post-training
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
1/ Our paper “What Matters for Bioacoustic Encoding” explores which training approaches matter most for building a generalizable bioacoustic encoder. We tested 19 models across 26 datasets and introduce a new evaluation benchmark. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2508.11845
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
August 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM