{"id":17316,"date":"2026-05-14T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:09:58","slug":"deepsqueak-a-deep-learning-based-system-for-detection-and-analysis-of-ultrasonic-vocalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2026\/05\/14\/deepsqueak-a-deep-learning-based-system-for-detection-and-analysis-of-ultrasonic-vocalizations\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSqueak &#8211; a deep learning-based system for detection and analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class = rtcContent><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">Mike's pick this week is <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/uk.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/71421-deepsqueak\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">DeepSqueak<\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\"> by <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/uk.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/12372472\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">Kevin R Coffey<\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\">. <\/span><\/div><h2  style = 'margin: 20px 10px 5px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">Introducing Alston's singing mouse<\/span><\/h2><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">This week I learned that there is a type of mouse that sings, Alston's singing mouse <\/span><span class=\"_richTextNode\" style=' font-style: italic;'>Scotinomys teguina<\/span><span class=\"_richTextNode\">)! Here's a video of the singing from the Live Science YouTube channel.<\/span><\/div><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><iframe class = \"onlineVideoNode\" src = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eNc1PI4PkG0\" width = \"560\" height = \"315\"><\/iframe><\/div><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">In a <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10458-y\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">recent Nature paper, Emily Isko et al <\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\">investigated what's different in the brains of these mice compared to the laboratory mouse (<\/span><span class=\"_richTextNode\" style=' font-style: italic;'>Mus musculus) <\/span><span class=\"_richTextNode\">making use of DeepSqueak along the way.<\/span><\/div><h2  style = 'margin: 20px 10px 5px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">DeepSqueak: Using Machine Vision to Accelerate Bioacoustics Research<\/span><\/h2><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">Isko's paper <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?cites=12846275880140025948&amp;as_sdt=2005&amp;sciodt=0,5&amp;hl=en\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">joins over 400 articles<\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\"> that <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?cites=12846275880140025948&amp;as_sdt=2005&amp;sciodt=0,5&amp;hl=en\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">cite the paper behind DeepSqueak<\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\">. Developed by academics at The University of Washington and available on <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/github.com\/DrCoffey\/DeepSqueak\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">GitHub<\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\"> and <\/span><a href = \"https:\/\/uk.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/71421-deepsqueak\"><span class=\"_richTextNode\">The MATLAB File Exchange<\/span><\/a><span class=\"_richTextNode\"> (and, therefore, from directly within MATLAB itself), DeepSqueak is a USV (ultrasonic vocalizations) detection and analysis software suite that can perform human quality USV detection and classification automatically, rapidly, and reliably.<\/span><\/div><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">Once you've added it to MATLAB, you can launch the graphical user interface with the command <\/span><span class=\"_richTextNode\" style=' font-family: monospace;'>DeepSqueak<\/span><\/div><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><img class = \"imageNode\" src = \"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/deepSqeak_1.png\" width = \"1033\" height = \"647\" alt = \"\" style = \"vertical-align: baseline; width: 1033px; height: 647px;\"><\/img><\/div><div  style = 'margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; '><span class=\"_richTextNode\">Congratulations to Kevin and his team for enabling so much amazing science!<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var css = '._richTextNode {white-space: break-spaces;}'; var head = document.head || document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0], style = document.createElement('style'); head.appendChild(style); style.type = 'text\/css'; if (style.styleSheet){ style.styleSheet.cssText = css; } else { style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css)); }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/deepSqeak_1.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><p>Mike's pick this week is DeepSqueak by Kevin R Coffey. Introducing Alston's singing mouseThis week I learned that there is a type of mouse that sings, Alston's singing mouse Scotinomys teguina)!... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2026\/05\/14\/deepsqueak-a-deep-learning-based-system-for-detection-and-analysis-of-ultrasonic-vocalizations\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,25,70,16,44],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions\/17317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}