AI 如何推動生物聲學發展以拯救瀕危物種：Google DeepMind 推出 Perch 模型

As accelerating climate change and habitat destruction intensify the urgency of protecting endangered species, traditional ecological monitoring methods — such as manual field surveys — are not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also fail to cover vast or inaccessible areas. In recent years, "bioacoustics" has become an important tool for ecologists: by installing automated recording equipment in the wild, scientists can collect tens of thousands of hours of sounds from the natural world. However, sifting through this enormous volume of audio data to identify the calls of target species has become a new bottleneck.