摘要: The analysis of natural and animal sound makes a demonstrable contribution to important challenges in conservation, behaviour, evolution. And now bioacoustics has entered its big data era. Thus automation is important, as scalability many cases very large amounts audio real-time processing. This chapter will focus on the science computational methods that can enable this. Computational some commonalities with wider scene analysis, well speech processing other disciplines. However, tasks required specific characteristics bioacoustic require new adapted techniques. survey bioacoustics, place particular emphasis existing work future prospects which address scalable analysis. We mostly airborne sound; there also been much freshwater marine small amount solid-borne sounds.