Bird Sounds by Manny Tan & Kyle McDonald Experiments with Google

This experiment uses machine learning to organize thousands of bird sounds. The computer wasn't given tags or the birds' names – only the audio. Using a technique called t-SNE, the computer created this map, where similar sounds are placed closer together. Built by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at Google Creative Lab. The sounds are available in the Macaulay Library's Essential Set for North America.