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I've been using SDR to listen to a local fire dispatch for a while, and I wanted to visualize what I hear on a map, by category and with summaries. I believe that it would generally be great for SDR to move towards what I call "Deep SDR", i.e. mapping & categorization of what we hear because it helps us make important generalizations about public service. Even though transcriptions and categorizations are not perfect, they're still very usable. I made a YouTube video demonstrating the Incident Map, and also included a brief review of SDR++, dump1090-mutability, and SDRAngel for aircraft spotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubU9Mf_zZAM - and I hope to spark your interest in this direction.

Hello all. I've been looking for an option to visualize on a map incidents that I hear on my SDR. I wanted to share with you what can be done. I am considering open-sourcing the project.

website screenshot

What the system does: it listens to the radio chatter (in my case it's Burnaby Fire Dispatch), transcribes the talk, assigns categories, extracts address information, and looks up latitude and longitude to create a point on a map. Then it visualizes the point on a dashboard.

Above is a screenshot from the test website, and I posted a video to YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubU9Mf_zZAM (it describes the project, but also briefly reviews SDR++ and SDRAngel for those completely unfamiliar).

I would like to understand if this is something that you'd be interested in replicating for your area. There are transcription mistakes too, so it's not perfect, but it's still very usable. I just believe that the SDR community can truly leverage listening in many ways with a system like that, and Deep SDR is where we can expand to a new dimension of data accumulation and analysis, with better insight into public resource allocation, seasonal trends, incident patterns and much more.

DEEP SDR as radio talk transcription and categorization with AI

DEEP SDR: I built a live Incident Map using a Nooelec v.5 and AI transcription