It's not unreasonable to expect that a big enough model could learn some kind of useful feature space for bird vocalizations. You are essentially replacing a pa

It's not unreasonable to expect that a big enough model could learn some kind of useful feature space for bird vocalizations. You are essentially replacing a parsimonious quasi-parametric model (Gaussian process) with an enormous fully nonparametric one. Transformer units should be as well-suited for this as for any other sequence learning task.