Features of Omnibat

Omnibat is designed to be a tool for managing huge amounts of bat call files. Omnibat helps to separate files with bat calls from junk data and to provide a preliminary species separation. Although Omnibat have some manual analysis tools to facilitate species validation and database management, no software can replace a trained specialist

Automatic detection system
- Scanning of multiple files/directories
- Discrimination between junk files and bats
- Discrimination between bat species (or genera)
- Possible to search for specific species
- Report function with manual corroboration option
- Exportable reports in common formats (.txt, .html)
- Matching real sounds - not algorithms

Database functionality
- Automatic database upgrades (continual enhancement)
- Add your own sounds to cope with local variation
- Tools for buildning/managing your own database
- Internal mis-classification reporting tool (quality validation)

Manual analysis tools
- Semi automatic max frequency measurement tool
- Semi automatic intra call length measurement tool
- General measurement tool (manual)
- Automatic noise reduction

Tech spec
- Works with most sound formats (.wav, .mp3)
- Uses real sounds (time expansion system)
- Optimised for multicore processing (up to x8 kernels)
- 64-bit support
- Developed for Windows XP, Vista 32/64, Linux and Mac OS X