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Settings

BirdNET Live reuses one Settings screen across multiple workflows. The tune_rounded button opens the sections that are relevant to the screen you came from.

How Settings Scope Works

  • Opening Settings from Home shows the full screen.
  • Opening Settings from Live, Survey, Point Count, or File Analysis filters the screen to the relevant sections.

General

Theme

Choose Dark, Light, or System.

App Language

Sets the interface language.

Species Names

Controls the language used for species names. Follow app language uses the same language as the interface when that name is available.

Show scientific names

Shows scientific names below common names across the app.

Audio

These controls appear in audio-driven live workflows.

Gain

Adjusts the input gain shown in the app. Use this only when you need to compensate for very quiet recordings or inputs.

High-pass filter (Hz)

Reduces low-frequency rumble before inference.

Microphone

Lets you choose a specific input device or keep the System default.

Inference

Window duration

Controls the length of the analysis window.

Confidence threshold

Sets how conservative detections should be.

Sensitivity

Higher values make the detector more permissive, which can recover fainter calls at the cost of more false positives.

Inference rate

Controls how frequently BirdNET runs inference.

Score pooling

Controls how overlapping analysis windows are combined.

Spectrogram

FFT size

Controls frequency resolution in the spectrogram.

Color map

Choose Viridis, Magma, or Grayscale.

Duration (scroll speed)

Controls how much time is visible in the spectrogram window.

Frequency range

Sets the upper display frequency.

Log amplitude

Applies logarithmic scaling to the spectrogram for easier visual reading.

Recording

Mode

  • Full — save the whole recording
  • Detections only — save clips around detections
  • Off — no audio recording

Clip context

When Detections only is active, the app shows Before and After controls that set how much audio is preserved around each detection.

Format

Choose WAV or FLAC.

Location

Use GPS

Use device GPS instead of manual coordinates.

Latitude / Longitude

Manual coordinates used when GPS is disabled.

Species filter

  • Off — no geographic filtering
  • Location filter — exclude species that fall below the geographic threshold
  • Location weighting — use the geo-model as an additional weighting signal

Geo-filter threshold

Appears when a location-based filter mode is active.

Export & Sync

Format

Choose one export target:

  • Raven Selection Table
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • GPX (track + waypoints)

Include audio files

Include saved audio alongside the exported tables or metadata when supported by the export workflow.

About

The About row opens the in-app About screen.

Danger Zone

Reset Onboarding

Shows the onboarding sequence again the next time the app launches.

Clear All Data

Opens a confirmation flow for permanently removing stored app data.

Workflow-Specific Parameters Outside Settings

Some parameters are configured inside their own setup screens rather than in the shared Settings screen.